September 16, 2016
As the Justice Department and Carolinas Healthcare System duke it out over steering restrictions in the hospital system’s contracts with insurers that the government says prevent competition, veteran antitrust practitioners are closely watching the “unprecedented” case.
September 16, 2016
When the Federal Trade Commission allowed pharmaceutical behemoth Teva to acquire Allergan’s generic business, conditioned on relinquishing 79 of its generic drugs — the largest drug divestiture in...
September 16, 2016
Arguing that it is likely to win a reversal of the Federal Trade Commission’s decision that found its data security practices to be inadequate, defunct medical testing firm LabMD has moved for the...
September 16, 2016
One of the guiding principles to advancement in academia is publish or perish. The Federal Trade Commission wants to be sure that scholars aren’t tricked into paying for the privilege and having...
September 16, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission will push companies to be more thorough in devising their privacy and other disclosure policies, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said Thursday.
September 16, 2016
Monopolies are generally believed to be bad for society. But some of them resulted in amazingly luxurious homes. These were great for the monopolists and their families and also created jobs for...
September 16, 2016
Privacy law and class-action procedures have come together in a California courtroom, with decidedly mixed results.
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