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April 28, 2026
The Senate Commerce Committee’s top Democrat found common ground at an oversight hearing with two Republican Federal Trade Commissioners on utilizing court action to return money to defrauded consumers through Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.
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April 28, 2026
Recent court wins in antitrust cases show that states’ more assertive enforcement rhetoric is translating into tangible results, while underscoring growing risks for deals such as the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
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April 28, 2026
One factor many progressives want enforcers to consider when reviewing proposed mergers is their impact on employees.
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April 28, 2026
A coalition of 33 states and the District of Columbia won a resounding victory in their monopolization case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which promptly raises the question of what remedies the states might get. A divestiture of Ticketmaster remains a real possibility there, even though it has been frequently downplayed.
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April 28, 2026
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery can expect to be interrogated by state antitrust enforcers about how their merger will influence labor issues and content-buyer power within the film and TV entertainment sector.
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April 14, 2026
A Florida judge sentenced Jasen Butler, the owner of Independent Marine Oil Services, to 60 months in prison for a contract bid scheme, the Department of Justice announced.
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April 14, 2026
StubHub must pay $10 million to settle Federal Trade Commission claims of deceptively advertising ticket prices without clearly showing how much consumers would actually pay, including mandatory fees.
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April 14, 2026
A coalition of small businesses is ramping up pressure on the Trump administration to bring more cases under the Robinson-Patman Act.
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April 14, 2026
As concerns about trust in the artificial intelligence industry prevail, House lawmakers are seeking to increase transparency about the technology with the Federal Trade Commission playing a key role.
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April 14, 2026
Amid a rapid surge in scams, fraud and surveillance issues, former Federal Trade Commission attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan have launched their own firm, Vaca Daffan LLP. The duo will use their training as federal enforcers to help consumers in cases they get to choose.
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April 14, 2026
Matthew Huppert, a key player in antitrust litigation strategy and execution at the Department of Justice, is now a partner at Winston & Strawn.
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April 14, 2026
June 4 — The American Antitrust Institute is hosting its 27th annual policy conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org/event/27th-annual-policy-conference/.
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April 14, 2026
In congressional testimony, a Federal Trade Commission official shared alarming statistics — the agency’s Consumer Sentinel Network database logged over $2 billion more in fraud losses than the prior year with almost half a million more fraud reports.
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April 14, 2026
Winston Churchill famously said Russia is a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
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April 14, 2026
Three weeks after the Supreme Court struck down an initial attempt by President Donald Trump to impose sweeping tariffs, the administration turned to executive action to bolster manufacturing in the US.
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April 14, 2026
Federal Trade Commission member Mark Meador wants the agency to be a strong enforcer in protecting privacy, especially for children, but the agency has no plans to tell companies how to run their businesses.
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April 14, 2026
Low morale and concerns about the direction of enforcement have led to a series of departures from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and more exits are expected this month, MLex has learned.
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April 14, 2026
Antitrust and privacy enforcement spending by the Federal Trade Commission would stay flat in the coming fiscal year under a budget proposal the agency sent to Congress. The FTC also published a strategic plan that said enforcement would avoid “unduly burdening legitimate business activity.”
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April 14, 2026
Enforcers at the late March antitrust conferences repeatedly said they intend to pay more attention to innovation competition. They didn’t specify the exact methodology they would use. But two early steps seem particularly likely.
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April 14, 2026
Alan Hayward James, a former member of the US Air Force, has pleaded guilty to multi-year bid-rigging schemes that defrauded the government out of $37 million, according to the Department of Justice.
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April 14, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission warned Tennessee legislators of the potential consequences of proposed legislation that would terminate a certificate of public advantage that provides state regulatory oversight for Ballad Health.
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April 14, 2026
CBS News parent Paramount Skydance’s proposed buyout of CNN owner Warner Bros. Discovery would give a single corporation control over two of the most popular US-based TV news broadcasts and online news providers.
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March 31, 2026
April 15 — Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson and agency member Mark Meador will testify at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission.” It will be held at 10 a.m. in Room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. For more information, go to: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/release/oversight-of-the-federal-trade-commission/.
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March 31, 2026
The American Bar Association’s Antitrust Spring Meeting is excellent in two ways. The formal panel presentations are a great way to keep informed of legal events, and the informal conversations in the hallways can be equally informative and cover different ground. This year the informal exchanges were especially valuable.
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March 31, 2026
Elaborating on language from the Federal Trade Commission’s request for public comment on premerger notifications, agency Chairman Andrew Ferguson recently discussed the problem of regulating so-called “acqui-hires.”