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 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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Walgreens’ proposed acquisition of Rite Aid, which would create the nation’s largest drugstore chain, is getting close to a decision point. There’s a good chance the deal will be approved by the...
It’s not quite five months into the Trump administration and the antitrust bar is still speculating about what to expect. Yet, the remarks of some top players at the Federal Trade Commission leave...
After Congress nixed the Federal Communications Commission’s rules on Internet privacy, there is now a struggle over how to balance consumer protection with the business interests.
As Republican lawmakers continue to try to rein in the powers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, there’s chatter that if the agency loses some turf, perhaps the Federal Trade Commission...
Behind the recent headlines about Target agreeing to the largest multi-state settlement for its massive data breach — $18.7 million to be divided among 47 states and the District of Columbia — is a...
President William Howard Taft was a seminal figure in antitrust enforcement, widely praised in some circles as being more of a scourge of trusts than his iconic predecessor and frenemy Theodore...