Act against data-driven bias, advocacy groups tell FTC
A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
What’s up with that West Virginia v. EPA opinion?
What was going on in the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA? Everyone has a sense the new “major questions doctrine” will create problems for the antitrust agencies. But what kinds of problems exactly?
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Representative Tom Marino talks antitrust policy, oversight
During his 18 months as chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, Representative Tom Marino has been active in examining healthcare mergers...
LabMD owner blasts FTC for extending ruling on data breach case
It took just a matter of minutes for Michael J. Daugherty, the CEO of LabMD, to fire off a withering e-mail over an order by the three members of the Federal Trade Commission that gives them until...
Senate negotiators making progress on House-passed privacy measure
This week’s defeat of an amendment giving more surveillance powers to the FBI removes a key obstacle that had been preventing further consideration of a measure to update a 30-year-old electronic...
Antitrust lawyers puzzled over FTC’s losses in two hospital merger challenges
Antitrust lawyers are scratching their heads over a decision by an Illinois federal judge that found the Federal Trade Commission’s approach to defining geographic markets “flawed” in its effort to...
Game still on: Amazon and FTC at odds over kids in-app settlement
In the wake of a 2014 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that required Apple to refund at least $32.5 million for in-app purchases made by children, CEO Tim Cook fumed to his workforce in...
Critics aren’t appeased by Baer’s defense for clearing American Airlines-US Airways merger
When Bill Baer recently spoke about his tenure atop the Justice Department’s antitrust division, he defended the government’s much-criticized decision to allow the merger between American Airlines...