FTCWatch
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October 21, 2025
Court pauses HPE-Juniper merger case
A California court has stayed the Department of Justice’s merger case against Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks until the federal government shutdown ends and DOJ attorneys can resume their work.
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October 21, 2025
Calendar
Nov. 6 — The American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section is hosting its Fall Forum at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://events.americanbar.org.
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October 21, 2025
Privacy Corner: Don Bell’s crusade against surveillance ramps up
Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s global surveillance program when Don Bell was in law school.
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October 21, 2025
States band together on privacy as Congress considers law
A decade ago, one state attorney general’s office set up a section specifically to focus on privacy. Since then, almost 20 states, including Connecticut, the home of that section, have enacted new privacy laws.
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October 21, 2025
Trump administration presses high court to ban reviews of official firings
While the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to let presidents fire members of the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies for any reason, it also wants to deprive federal courts of the power to overturn a firing decision.
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October 21, 2025
Neil Averitt commentary: Real but limited effects from the Ticketmaster complaint
Imagine going to the Ticketmaster website, happily clicking on two concert seats for $490, but ultimately being charged a checkout price of $662 — 23 percent more — after the addition of taxes and mandatory fees. Then feeling ripped off.
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October 21, 2025
People
Former DOJ attorney, author joins Lichten & Liss-Riordan
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October 21, 2025
Trump FTC invites other enforcers to chart new path on noncompetes
A nationwide ban on noncompete agreements previously pursued by the Federal Trade Commission is dead, but the Trump administration wants other government antitrust lawyers and the private bar to start bringing novel cases as the agency attempts to protect workers from illegal restraints on their mobility.
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October 21, 2025
Examining the firewall fix in vertical deals
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have used firewalls to remedy anticompetitive mergers for years, but doubts persist over their effectiveness.
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October 21, 2025
State AGs accuse Redfin, Zillow of unlawful deal
A day after the Federal Trade Commission sued online housing platforms Redfin and Zillow, five state attorneys general filed a similar lawsuit on Oct. 1 against the companies, calling the $100 million deal “anticompetitive.”
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October 21, 2025
On the Shelf: Kennedy explains his judicial philosophy
Most Supreme Court justices are easy to label and have judicial philosophies that make their opinions predictable.
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October 21, 2025
Quantum, EQT can’t modify FTC settlement
Private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners and natural gas producer EQT Corp. can’t reopen and set aside a Federal Trade Commission order involving their $5.2 billion cash-and-stock deal, the agency announced.
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October 21, 2025
Google faces risky next chapter in watershed privacy case
A month after Google lost a $426 million jury verdict over its disclosures about its logging of users’ app activity, the case is poised to move into a new phase that exposes the tech giant to up to $4.6 billion in additional damages and the risk of forced business changes.
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October 07, 2025
Antitrust agencies short-staffed due to shutdown
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are operating at considerably reduced levels due to Congress’ inability to pass a spending plan for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1.
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October 07, 2025
FTC reportedly blocked original sale of plant that produced glass in Pennsylvania
Tony Pane, an engineer for 36 years at a plant in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, that produced Pyrex glass products, is still waiting to hear from the Federal Trade Commission after filing an antitrust complaint last year.
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October 07, 2025
Calendar
Oct. 16 — The 2025 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality will be delivered by former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan at Harvard Kennedy School. For more details, go to: https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/event/2025-stone-lecture-economic-inequality-lina-khan.
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October 07, 2025
People — Kanter joins faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University
Jonathan Kanter, one of the preeminent 21st century trustbusters, has joined the faculty of a school founded by one of history’s notorious monopolists.
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October 07, 2025
Zillow paid Redfin not to compete in rental ad market, FTC says in suit
Zillow and Redfin illegally conspired to limit competition in the rental advertising market, according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission.
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October 07, 2025
Lack of coordination in offboarding, FTC’s OIG report says
An audit report from the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Inspector General said the agency’s offboarding process lacked coordination. The report also made a pair of recommendations weeks before some employees were set to depart.
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October 07, 2025
Table saw regulation runs into sharp resistance
The Federal Trade Commission is continuing its push against a proposed rule requiring table saws to use expensive finger-detection technology, which is made exclusively by one company.
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October 07, 2025
Two Denver companies, executives indicted over forklift tariff scheme
A federal grand jury returned an indictment accusing Denver-based companies Endless Sales, Octane Forklifts, and their top executives of defrauding the federal government on sales of forklifts and conspiring to avoid paying proper tariffs on the imports, the Department of Justice announced.
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October 07, 2025
Neil Averitt commentary: AI, consumer fraud and the need for active deterrence
Some consumer protection truths are gloriously obvious. Online consumer fraud is a huge and growing problem, and artificial intelligence is making this problem rapidly worse. But what should we do about it?
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October 07, 2025
Senators press DOJ nominee over corporate influence accusations
A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter questioning Stanley Woodward about concerns they have over his nomination for Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice.
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October 07, 2025
Dun & Bradstreet to pay $5.7 million for violating order
Business credit report service provider Dun & Bradstreet agreed to a $5.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the firm violated a 2022 order, the agency announced.
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October 07, 2025
FTC issues draft strategic plan
The Federal Trade Commission released its proposed strategic plan for fiscal years 2026-2030.