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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
The Federal Trade Commission and Caremark have settled allegations that the company artificially inflated insulin drug prices.
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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
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
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
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
Lawyers and economists tend to fly a lot, so the state of domestic airline competition is never far from our minds.
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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
Amazon has a monopolization case pending from the Federal Trade Commission and a dozen-plus states, and a small business group is planning a petition to the government officials to request a trial and not a settlement.
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July 21, 2026
Since the 1860s, John Mitchell and his ancestors have been working a farm near Winnebago, Illinois, about 10 miles west of the federal courthouse in Rockford, Ill.
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July 21, 2026
Netflix has been targeted by a coalition of labor and consumer advocates demanding that the government investigate the streaming giant’s business practices.
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July 21, 2026
NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy will likely receive antitrust scrutiny in the wholesale power markets administered by independent power grid operators PJM Interconnection and ISO New England.
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July 21, 2026
A laser machine maker is one of seven companies the Federal Trade Commission has targeted to ensure products advertised as ‘Made in the USA’ actually are USA-made.
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July 21, 2026
For years, defining narrow relevant markets around a subset of premium products has been a controversial legal strategy in merger enforcement. States challenging the proposed Paramount-Warner combination are now attempting one of the boldest applications yet: treating blockbuster theatrical films and the licensing of basic cable television channels as distinct relevant markets.
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July 07, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is marking July as Military Consumer Month with webinars and outreach efforts aimed at helping members of the military avoid being victims of scams.
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July 07, 2026
Aug. 3 — Former acting Federal Trade Commission Chairs Maureen Ohlhausen and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter are among the speakers at a virtual conference on “The FTC After Trump v. Slaughter.” The event, which begins at 8:30 a.m., 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/event/aai-clc-gwlaw-conference-ftc-after-trump-v-slaughter/.
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July 07, 2026
The heart of the Federal Trade Commission’s work under Chairman Andrew Ferguson revolves around enabling consumer choice, said Chris Mufarrige, the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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July 07, 2026
When the Supreme Court ruled the president can fire members of the Federal Trade Commission, it raised a series of questions about the future structure and powers of the agency.
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July 07, 2026
A Washington, DC-area high school student found out that someone had been applying for federal student financial aid under his name and ultimately learned that the identify thief was supposedly enrolled in a Utah community college.
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July 07, 2026
Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch have agreed to donate 53 million eggs and pay $3.3 million to settle antitrust claims by the Department of Justice and 17 states that they colluded to artificially raise egg prices.
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July 07, 2026
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter is likely to be remembered for transforming the Federal Trade Commission’s independence. But it also underscores a quieter shift in US merger enforcement: the practical differences between the FTC and the Department of Justice are steadily disappearing.
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July 07, 2026
The online public square is cluttered with deepfake content, but a trio in the Senate is renewing an effort to clean it up by requiring labels on certain material created with artificial intelligence.
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July 07, 2026
Carla A.R. Hine, who has worked extensively on both mergers & acquisitions and conduct cases, is now a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.
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July 07, 2026
Targeted advertising is a big source of revenue for companies. It also presents a perennial challenge given the risks to consumer privacy.