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October 06, 2026
Transocean and Valaris received antitrust approval as the Department of Justice notified the companies that the agency closed its investigation into the $5.8 billion deal.
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October 06, 2026
Fresh off two trial wins against Meta Platforms, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is willing to challenge other Big Tech companies that violate citizens’ rights.
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October 06, 2026
Nov. 5 — The American Antitrust Institute is holding its 20th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org.
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October 06, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a settlement with Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits that would impose six years of pricing restrictions and independent monitoring on the company.
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October 06, 2026
A bipartisan pair of senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence on the “Made in USA” practices of Amazon and Walmart, citing a report that consumers were deceived by chatbots about products’ countries of origin.
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October 06, 2026
Don’t expect to see Democratic members on the Federal Trade Commission anytime soon, and that’s fine with Chairman Andrew Ferguson. While both commissioners are Republicans, he insists it’s not an echo chamber.
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October 06, 2026
Four lawmakers are seeking information from artificial intelligence companies about how their models would function under newly proposed legislation.
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October 06, 2026
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers proposed legislation that would require online platforms to verify advertisers and provide tools for reporting fraudulent content. The measure is aimed at curbing the billions of dollars consumers lose to online scams.
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October 06, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has amended its rules of practice to better align with the FTC Act and reflect organizational changes.
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October 06, 2026
We have a mix of good news and bad news on artificial intelligence-assisted consumer fraud. Fraud is being energized by new technologies, but promising new remedies are also emerging.
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October 06, 2026
Some artificial intelligence executives are asking for an antitrust exemption, but a look back at other efforts reveal it’s a long shot.
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October 06, 2026
Gail Slater, former assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is heading to the law firm White & Case as a partner in the Washington, DC, office, MLex has learned.
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October 06, 2026
When Rebecca Valentine joined the Federal Trade Commission as an honors paralegal, she had a cursory knowledge of antitrust.
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September 22, 2026
David Dahlquist, the former top antitrust litigator at the Department of Justice who led the trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, told FTCWatch the political leadership’s settlement of the lawsuit was “disappointing and frustrating” and that a more effective deal could have been reached after a jury verdict.
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September 22, 2026
Nov. 5 — The American Antitrust Institute is holding its 20th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org.
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September 22, 2026
For 35 years, roughly a third of the Federal Trade Commission’s history, Ernest Eric Elmore was an agency lawyer. Last month, he joined Squire Patton Boggs’ antitrust and competition practice.
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September 22, 2026
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson predicts there won’t be legislative action to shift the agency’s antitrust enforcement duties to the Department of Justice.
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September 22, 2026
When James Madison drafted the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution — which guarantees the right of people “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects” — he didn’t have a smart meter on his Virginia home.
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September 22, 2026
Despite clashing over the Federal Trade Commission’s independence, Commissioner Mark Meador and former Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter agreed the agency could take greater advantage of its Section 5 powers.
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September 22, 2026
Did you have a good feeling about Paramount closing its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery? Did you have some bucks in your pocket and turn to Kalshi? After all, the prediction site called state and federal elections in 2024 with uncanny accuracy.
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September 22, 2026
The Justice Department’s reported investigation of Nvidia’s separate Groq arrangement does not directly call into question its proposed acquisition of Hugging Face, but it could complicate the agency’s review by sharpening scrutiny of the chipmaker’s broader AI dealmaking strategy.
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September 22, 2026
Humboldt Merchant Services has agreed to pay $12 million for allegedly processing payments from merchants that defrauded consumers, the Federal Trade Commission said.
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September 22, 2026
James Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked the Federal Trade Commission for details on the agency’s proposed policy targeting surveillance pricing.
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September 22, 2026
When antitrust professionals watch for legislation that may imply tightened enforcement, they tend to eye liberal lawmakers. But we mustn’t overlook the alternative of Republican populism as exemplified by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
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September 22, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has rescinded a 2021 policy statement that applied the Health Breach Notification Rule to health applications and connected devices, calling the statement “obsolete.”