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August 18, 2026
Tony Eastin is a former global operations investigator for Meta. That didn’t deter him from targeting how child abuse happens on the tech giant’s platforms after his 2023 layoff.
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August 18, 2026
The Department of Justice’s eve-of-trial settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise over its acquisition of rival Juniper Networks — which led to two Antitrust Division leaders being fired after they opposed the compromise — was ratified by a federal judge. He determined that DOJ turmoil before and after the settlement was reached didn’t nullify its legitimacy.
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August 18, 2026
For one recent addition to the antitrust section of the California Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission’s 2024 Tapestry-Capri case was about much more than handbags.
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August 18, 2026
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador voted differently on the conditions for quantum computing firm IonQ to buy chipmaker SkyWater. It was a rare instance of a split among members of the same political party.
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August 18, 2026
Walmart and Amazon, using artificial intelligence tools, “deceived” consumers over so-called “Made in America” products, a Columbia University Law School study found.
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August 18, 2026
RentGrow has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle claims over violations concerning tenant background reports.
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August 18, 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 18, 2026
A federal court has temporarily shut down an alleged credit repair ring after a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission.
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August 18, 2026
Adam Candeub, the Trump administration’s nominee for the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, got a party-line reception from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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August 18, 2026
Longtime friends of the Federal Trade Commission have been discussing how to respond to the Trump v. Slaughter decision. Unfortunately, they have been whistling past the graveyard and missing the bigger question, which is how an independent agency can go about justifying its existence in a newly skeptical world.
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August 18, 2026
A Republican member of the Senate panel that oversees the Federal Trade Commission has proposed legislation to amend the agency’s decision-making structure on the heels of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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August 18, 2026
Memoirs by former technology executives are usually whine festivals and contain phrases like “if they had only listened to me, things would have been better.”
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August 18, 2026
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger will formally intervene in the regulatory review of NextEra Energy’s proposed $67 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy, making her the first Virginia head of state to do so.
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August 18, 2026
Herbert D. Lutz, who manages a bovine artificial insemination firm, pleaded guilty to rigging bids in a multi-year scheme, the Department of Justice said.
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August 18, 2026
The Department of Justice and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a lawsuit and proposed settlement over APAC-Tennessee’s $133.9 million purchase of Standard Construction Group. APAC is a subsidiary of Ireland-based CRH.
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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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has resumed using targeted “second request investigations” during Hart-Scott-Rodino merger reviews.