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August 04, 2026
Representatives Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky and Rob Menendez have reintroduced the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act. The legislation seeks to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s Section 13(b) consumer protection authority and ensure the agency can return money to consumers.
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August 04, 2026
The Writers Guild of America’s challenge to the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is a data-rich lawsuit that presents a wide array of statistics and anecdotes to bolster its claim that Hollywood studio consolidation inevitably reduces the number of screenwriting jobs, the salaries of screenwriters and the quality of writing employment terms.
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August 04, 2026
In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Harrisonburg Fire Chief Matthew Tobia is still waiting on his new 100-foot ladder truck.
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August 04, 2026
Senator John Curtis announced legislation to require a quorum of at least three Federal Trade Commission members for the agency to undertake rulemaking or establish policy.
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August 04, 2026
Sept. 14 — Federal Trade Commission member Mark Meador will speak at the Bill Kovacic Antitrust Salon. The event, sponsored by Concurrences, will begin at 12:30 p.m. and take place at George Washington University Law School’s Jacob Burns Moot Court Room in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://www.concurrences.com.
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August 04, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has continued its effort to protect children in two recent cases targeting advertising practices.
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August 04, 2026
The trans-continental transfer of data is receiving more scrutiny after a Supreme Court ruling altered the Federal Trade Commission’s independence.
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August 04, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission highlighted military consumer month with another series of webinars, but the scale of fraud losses reported was more of a rise than a repetition.
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August 04, 2026
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has resumed using targeted “second request investigations” during Hart-Scott-Rodino merger reviews.
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August 04, 2026
After stints as a government lawyer and at two large law firms, Carsten Reichel has joined Heise Suarez Melville, a boutique litigation firm, based in Coral Gables, Florida.
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August 04, 2026
When is a bug not a bug? All too often, when it’s being considered for inclusion in a list of online customer comments.
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August 04, 2026
Before Federal Trade Commission members Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and William Humphrey disputed their firings before the Supreme Court, there was Frank Myers, the postmaster of Portland, Oregon, whose case is still shaping the law.
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August 04, 2026
For two decades, the word “Google” has been included in the dictionary, meaning to use the Google search engine to obtain information.
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August 04, 2026
Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who had a tense relationship with the business community, has been named chair of the agency aimed at attracting new business to New York City.
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August 04, 2026
Companies are becoming less cooperative and transparent in responding to state privacy investigations, dragging out inquiries and making them harder to resolve even as attorneys general prepare a new wave of enforcement actions that could carry significant penalties, three top privacy regulators said.
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August 04, 2026
Senators Ed Markey, Richard Blumenthal and Ron Wyden are urging the Federal Trade Commission to reject X Corp.’s effort to terminate a privacy order.
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July 21, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and Caremark have settled allegations that the company artificially inflated insulin drug prices.
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July 21, 2026
A group of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward urging the agency to scrutinize Fox Corp.’s proposed acquisition of Roku.
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July 21, 2026
As the Federal Trade Commission remains under single-party control moving forward, sustaining the policy benefits of bipartisanship may prove challenging.
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July 21, 2026
One of the architects of a data privacy bill in the last Congress left Capitol Hill recently to return to her home state of Washington after a nearly 40-year career in public service.
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July 21, 2026
Aug. 3 — Former acting Federal Trade Commission Chairs Maureen Ohlhausen and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will speak at a virtual conference on “The FTC After Trump v. Slaughter.” The event is cosponsored by the American Antitrust Institute and the Competition Law Center at George Washington University. For more information, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org/.
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July 21, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $2 million to consumers as part of a settlement with Handy Technologies. The gig economy company allegedly misrepresented how much workers could earn.
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July 21, 2026
Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are seen as top competition and technology policy leaders who could play greater roles if Republicans keep control of the Senate.
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July 21, 2026
TransDigm Group abandoned its acquisition of fellow defense contractor Stellant Systems after the Department of Justice threatened to sue to block the $960 million deal.
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July 21, 2026
Lawyers and economists tend to fly a lot, so the state of domestic airline competition is never far from our minds.