May 13, 2015
The stunning testimony of a key witness that the Federal Trade Commission had relied on manufactured evidence to build the agency’s case that LabMD had failed to adequately protect consumers’ confidential data emerged last week as the latest dramatic development in this bitter faceoff. The FTC’s decision not to cross-examine the witness in the administrative trial added yet another surprise.
May 13, 2015
The battle over data breach legislation has intensified since Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a measure that was quickly embraced by many consumer advocacy groups, while businesses generally are...
May 13, 2015
Comments are flooding into the Federal Trade Commission in advance of its planned June 9 workshop on what is being called the peer-to-peer economy, where people transport commercial passengers in...
May 13, 2015
A bevy of regulators including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission and several state attorneys general reached a $158 million settlement with mobile...
May 13, 2015
The cost is mounting, to the tune of at least $18 million, for what appears to have been a failed effort by an Idaho hospital to buy a physician practice in the state.
May 13, 2015
With a continuing rush of mergers expected, the capacity of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice is already strained.
May 13, 2015
Let us now pause and do something that has been done very seldom in the last two generations. Let us think — actually think — about the Robinson-Patman Act. Let us make our minds blank, and look at...
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