Tech titans, other companies face PR hurdles in antitrust suits
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.
Actually using a balancing test in the Google case
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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Debate erupts over creating separate FTC tech bureau
One of the first things Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joe Simons looked at after joining the agency was the chief technology officer job and whether a separate Bureau of Technology should be...
Qualcomm case: A prelude to more interagency clashes?
The Federal Trade Commission’s short, unsparing put-down of the Justice Department for its unprecedented intervention in the commission’s lawsuit against Qualcomm raises the question of whether...
Rules, privacy, money dominate FTC congressional hearings
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joe Simons was channeling Oliver Twist.
Contact lens rulemaking slog approaching year four
How long does it take the Federal Trade Commission to implement basic compliance procedures for doctors selling contact lenses?
Online lenders in regulatory crosshairs over iffy practices
The website of online lender Everest Business Funding makes clear the types of small businesses it’s looking to fund: all of them.
Erxleben discusses memoir, recalls legal career highs, lows
At a time when Congress is debating whether the Federal Trade Commission should get more consumer protection power to protect privacy, William Erxleben sees history repeating itself.