White House, industry ramp up data protection
April 15, 2014
With Congress at a standstill, the Obama administration, retailers and big banks are taking steps to beef up their efforts to prevent data breaches.
April 15, 2014
Terrell McSweeny’s long wait to join the FTC is finally over. After months passed before the Senate even took up her nomination, lawmakers, finally, on April 9, voted overwhelmingly – 95-1 – to confirm.
April 15, 2014
In the first case of its kind, the Justice Department recently announced that an Italian national has been successfully extradited from Germany for his alleged involvement in a world-wide...
April 15, 2014
With Congress at a standstill, the Obama administration, retailers and big banks are taking steps to beef up their efforts to prevent data breaches.
April 15, 2014
The FTC and Congress often deal with important issues; some are now urging that they deal literally with weighty ones.
April 15, 2014
The venue for the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger had to be changed from the panel’s more intimate meeting room in the Dirksen building to...
April 15, 2014
A draft legislative proposal that would change the FTC’s standard for obtaining a preliminary injunction in merger cases and limit its use of administrative adjudication in such cases is being...
April 15, 2014
The Antitrust Division has made the right call on the meat industry, in spite of great temptations – both political and nostalgic – to make the wrong call.
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