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February 24, 2026
Lauren Briggerman, a veteran antitrust lawyer, has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner from Miller & Chevalier.
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is returning roughly $23 million to more than 1,000 people who purchased deceptively marketed real estate lots near the coast in the Central American country of Belize.
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February 10, 2026
Feb. 20 — Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson will speak at the George Mason Law Review’s 29th Annual Antitrust Symposium. It will be held at the school’s Arlington campus. For more information, go to: https://masonlec.org/events/george-mason-law-review-29th-annual-antitrust-symposium/.
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February 10, 2026
Senator Ron Wyden, a long-time privacy hawk, is warning against government overreach. His latest targets are Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
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February 10, 2026
A senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission for much of 2025, Jon Schweppe has left the agency to return to his former employer, the American Principles Project, a “pro-family” advocacy organization headquartered in Virginia.
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February 10, 2026
Netflix’s proposed buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery captured the attention of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee at a hearing last week.
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February 10, 2026
A pair of Democratic senators and nine of their House colleagues questioned the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and the chief executive of PepsiCo about a case the FTC dismissed against the company last year.
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February 10, 2026
Like the majority of those serving in fire departments across the US, Michael Goldstein is not a career firefighter, but he shares a concern with others in the profession, namely firms backed by private equity increasing prices on critical reporting software.
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February 10, 2026
Express Scripts agreed to cooperate with the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing antitrust litigation against pharmacy benefit managers Caremark Rx and OptumRx and other affiliated entities as part of a settlement that also includes a revamp of ESI’s business practices.
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February 10, 2026
Identity Theft Awareness Week, which concluded Jan. 30, featured webinars, podcasts and a live discussion on how citizens can protect their privacy online.
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February 10, 2026
The Department of Justice and Postal Service announced a $1 million reward to a whistleblower who provided information that led to EBLOCK Corp. resolving criminal antitrust and fraud charges.
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February 10, 2026
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned 42 elite law firms regarding potentially unfair and anticompetitive employment practices.
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February 10, 2026
One of the problems with contemporary political discourse is the lack of nuance.
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February 10, 2026
As the Federal Trade Commission looks to implement potential policies to bolster the use of age verification technology, experts urge data minimization practices.
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February 10, 2026
When any government agency announces a new program, you must ask how serious it is and how diligently it will be pursued. In the case of the Federal Trade Commission’s campaign against noncompete clauses, the answer seems to be that the agency means business.
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February 10, 2026
Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competition and consumers across the nation’s economy.
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January 27, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission approved new merger filing fees ranging from $35,000 to $2.46 million.
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January 27, 2026
Feb. 11 — George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law and Economics Center is hosting a webinar on “Privacy in 2026: What Changed and What’s Next?” It will be held from noon to 1 p.m. ET. For more information, go to: https://masonlec.org/events/privacy-in-2026-what-changed-whats-next/.
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January 27, 2026
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division secured victory against the owner of Marine Oil Services. Jasen Butler was found guilty of 34 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and forgery by a federal jury in Miami.
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January 27, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission approved revised jurisdictional thresholds for Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits interlocking directorates.
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January 27, 2026
Lawmakers led by Senators Chuck Grassley and Mike Rounds are calling on the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to stop price discrimination, namely in the grocery and agriculture sectors.
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January 27, 2026
An outcome from an effort by the Federal Trade Commission is landing in mailboxes across the country this month.
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January 27, 2026
Mounting procedural obstacles for plaintiffs in class actions spell trouble for the Department of Justice’s ability to secure restitution for victims of criminal anticompetitive conduct.
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January 27, 2026
Billionaire David MacNeil has been a successful entrepreneur and advocate for business interests. As President Donald Trump’s latest nominee to fill a seat on the Federal Trade Commission, he’ll be somewhat of a rarity at the agency — a member who lacks legal expertise.
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January 27, 2026
Hospital mergers are large, frequently lead to price rises and are definitively local. By rights, they should be a bread-and-butter concern of state attorneys general. But it hasn’t always worked out that way.