April 01, 2016
Federal Trade Commission member Julie Brill was especially upbeat and relaxed when she sat down for an interview with FTC:WATCH on March 24. The ebullient commissioner had announced her resignation two days earlier and is joining Hogan Lovells as a partner and co-director of its Privacy and Security Practice — a big change in her career after devoting 28 years to public service, including working for the state attorneys general in North Carolina and Vermont.
April 01, 2016
Julie Brill’s departure from the Federal Trade Commission means that for the first time in more than 21 years, the agency will operate with just three commissioners. Back then, in 1994, the...
April 01, 2016
Many people who sit on the bench pay lip service to the importance of judicial modesty. US Circuit Judge Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama has nominated to the Supreme Court, practices...
April 01, 2016
In recent weeks, the Federal Trade Commission, which has long seen itself as the premier privacy agency, has watched other regulators flex their muscles and increasingly claim some of that turf.
April 01, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission’s policy statement on Section 5 of the FTC Act is getting its first check-up on Capitol Hill next Tuesday.
April 01, 2016
The Justice Department’s recent victory in blocking Tribune Publishing’s acquisition of two Southern California newspapers has provoked some head scratching.
April 01, 2016
The Justice Department’s antitrust division is doing better on the subject of newspaper mergers than many critics believe. However, it still does not have a policy that fully recognizes the...
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