Section 5 rising to the surface again

(April 19, 2013) -- One of the hot topics that reverberated in several sessions of the ABA Spring Meeting involved the FTC’s use of Section 5 – an issue that might just become a big challenge for the agency because of the current partisan divide among the commissioners. Until a fifth member of the commission (who will be a Democrat) is confirmed to break the current two – to – two split between the Democratic and Republican members, philosophical differences about the use of Section 5 could persist....

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