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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It’s been almost six months since Joe Simons became chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, but he remains to many a mystery, a leader whose priorities are still opaque.
In what can only be described as a kick in the teeth to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim, 10 state attorneys general have thrown their support behind AT&T’s legal battle...
Former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky, who transformed the agency and made major contributions to both antitrust and consumer protection law, died on Oct. 6 at age 88.
A chuckle or two, some eye rolls and a reference to Groundhog Day. Those were some of the skeptical reactions to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim’s recent proposals to...
With online ticket scalping on the rise, the Federal Trade Commission plans to examine a law aimed at curtailing consumer harm caused by computer programs that buy up tickets and resell them at...
Back in January, more than a hundred public health advocates and organizations urged Facebook to shut down its Messenger Kids app, arguing that too much social media use is harmful to childhood...