Political gridlock could prevent FTC from getting disgorgement powers
Congressional backers of giving the Federal Trade Commission more powers to recover ill-gotten gains will need a host of skills. But the most important one may be ensuring they can count to 60.
Protecting businesses from telemarketing scams
The Federal Trade Commission has long protected individual consumers from scams, but now it’s devoting more attention to scams that target businesses. This reflects a fundamental broadening of the agency’s sense of its mission.
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Pressure’s on as FTC negotiates Facebook penalty
Something strange happened after Facebook disclosed the Federal Trade Commission might hit it with an eye-popping fine as high as $5 billion for violating a privacy order — the largest civil...
More presidential hopefuls weigh in on antitrust issues
Come on in. The antitrust water is fine.
In LabMD aftermath, FTC retools data security orders
After an appeals court ruled the Federal Trade Commission’s order telling a medical testing company to fix its weak data security was unenforceable — finding it too vague — practitioners have...
Lawmakers clash over newspaper antitrust exemption
Two House members with the most clout on antitrust matters favor an exemption for the newspaper industry, but hold their positions for different reasons.
An Rx for stronger antitrust enforcement? New book explores options
The doctors — or in this case, the legal scholars — thought they knew what ailed the patient. In the late 1970s, “the patient” was the sluggish US economy, and Robert Bork and Richard Posner...
End Standard Oil consent decree, DOJ says
Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft are either frowning in their graves or realizing their efforts succeeded.