DOJ settles with eBay over worker poaching pact
May 18, 2014
No-poaching deals are a no-go.
May 18, 2014
For the past 30 years or so, it has been a somewhat open secret that the road to an FTC-approved merger is paved with promises of efficiencies. Indeed, it has often seemed that no objection could withstand the power of an efficiencies argument – no matter how optimistic or speculative – as long as the argument was at least plausible. But times are changing. Bold forecasts about efficiencies flowing from mergers are no longer being accepted by the commission at face value. Instead, it is increasingly the case that they must be substantiated by hard data and not just the promises of hard-charging corporate executives.
May 18, 2014
The Law and Economics Center at George Mason drew a noticeably outside-the-Beltway crowd to its May 14 conference on “The Future of Privacy and Data Security Regulation.”
May 18, 2014
It hasn’t taken long for FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright to make an impression.
May 18, 2014
The Justice Department won Round One in its case against American Express Company when Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently denied the...
May 18, 2014
Editor’s Note: With the FTC approaching its 100th-year anniversary, FTC:WATCH today inaugurates a series of articles highlighting the history of antitrust enforcement in America.
May 18, 2014
If there is a reliable laugh line in antitrust, it is to refer to the social and political goals of enforcement actions. That is sure to draw a snicker and a roll of the eyeballs. The modern...
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