December 2, 2016
In the past three decades the Justice Department’s antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission have “undergone a dramatic shift” toward settling antitrust cases with consent decrees rather than fighting them out in litigation.
December 2, 2016
Some new faces, many of the same issues.
December 2, 2016
In the three-plus years since the Federal Trade Commission sued LabMD, a cancer detection laboratory in Georgia, for allegedly failing to adequately protect consumers’ confidential information, a...
December 2, 2016
The US currently has a “haphazard” approach to protecting children’s identities if they are compromised in a breach, a US Federal Trade Commissioner said Thursday, citing her personal experience...
December 2, 2016
In the department of few surprises, the Federal Trade Commission warned that too many rules could stifle innovation in the so-called sharing economy but not enough would make consumers feel unsafe.
December 2, 2016
The Department of Justice has pressed an appellate court to reconsider its finding that American Express can punish merchants who push other payment methods, a decision that upset the government’s...
December 2, 2016
Cooperation between federal and state antitrust enforcers is a worthy goal, but it can be oversold. Some level of creative tension between the two jurisdictions will often be just as important and...
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