Neil Averitt commentary: The not-so-covert war on the FTC’s administrative process

(November 17, 2015) -- In the past year or two you may have noticed an unusual number of challenges to the Federal Trade Commission’s system of administrative law. We are not talking about limited challenges to particular agency policies, but more fundamental challenges to seemingly long-settled questions of policy and constitutional law, which appear to question the basic concept of adjudicating antitrust cases through an administrative process. This is not your imagination. There are a number of such efforts underway. And they are the product of an organized campaign....

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