Antitrust cases are fought as much in the court of public opinion as in a courtroom, and experts say that calls for a multipronged strategy.
Antitrust lawyers love to talk about the consumer welfare standard and the rule of reason, and indeed these things are central to the intellectual framework of the law and to practical counseling. But when they’re put to the test in high-stakes litigation against Big Tech, courts generally recoil...
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President Donald Trump is likely to nominate Joseph Simons, co-chairman of the antitrust group at Paul Weiss, to be chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, FTC:WATCH has learned.
In one of the Federal Trade Commission’s highest-stakes trials in history, lawyers for DirecTV and the agency launched a one-month battle in a California federal court this week, unveiling the...
Shortly before the Senate adjourned for the August recess, Orrin Hatch, the senior Republican member of the chamber, took to the floor and sounded off on an unexpected subject: antitrust.
It all started as a joke on Twitter.
In a twist in the protracted litigation challenging American Express’ restrictions that stop merchants from steering consumers to less expensive credit cards, the Justice Department blasted the...
State officials have a message for the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to push for changes in how occupations are licensed: “We hear you and are making progress on our own.”