If Republican nominees Melissa Holyoak of Utah and Andrew Ferguson of Virginia are confirmed, as expected, to join the Federal Trade Commission this month, they could change the dynamics of an agency that’s been under single-party control for half...
Hard cases are notorious for making bad law. But sometimes the easy and obvious cases can make bad law, too. Something like this seems to be going on with insulin pricing.
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The Federal Trade Commission’s recent challenge to the proposed merger of two West Virginia hospitals pits the agency against the state’s attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, who had earlier reached...
Concerns of business and leisure travelers, who fear higher prices and fewer choices, will play into the government's review of Marriott International’s proposed $12.2 billion acquisition of...
Bill Baer was in his first week as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division in January 2013 when he had to decide whether to challenge Anheuser-Busch InBev’s proposed mega-deal to...
Two online fantasy sports sites already being investigated by the FBI and being sued by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could also come under scrutiny for deceptive marketing by...
Guidelines on antitrust enforcement in the intellectual property arena, issued 20 years ago, are still highly relevant today, and no significant revisions are needed, top officials at the US's two...
The Federal Trade Commission’s staff is appealing the dismissal of its lawsuit that charged that LabMD, a medical testing company, had failed to provide reasonable security to protect consumers’...