April 07, 2017
Since her elevation to acting chairman earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission’s Maureen Ohlhausen has championed the agency’s “economic liberty” initiative, which aims to encourage states to loosen or do away with occupational licensing requirements.
April 07, 2017
After having served in the majority since joining the Federal Trade Commission in 2014, Terrell McSweeny is now operating in unfamiliar territory as the only Democrat on the five-member commission,...
April 07, 2017
This year’s spring meeting of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section took place in a new venue that mostly got a thumbs-up from attendees. Their enthusiasm, however, was tempered by...
April 07, 2017
Companies that highlight prices for certain products as bargains are likely to face additional scrutiny from aggressive state enforcers and in private litigation rather than on the federal front,...
April 07, 2017
The one certainty about the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative litigation — so-called Part 3 — is that disagreements about its fairness will not end any time soon.
April 07, 2017
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, a leading candidate to chair the Federal Trade Commission, learned about unintended legal liabilities as a law student at Berkeley, but not in a classroom.
April 07, 2017
As Yogi Berra reminds us, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
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