FTC UNDER ATTACK AS PARTIES CHALLENGE ITS STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPATION OF CHAIRPERSON
At a time when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) states that it is overwhelmed with merger review matters, its very existence is being attacked in two distinct ways. In one challenge, a party to an FTC administrative...
FTC CHANGES TO MERGER REVIEW PROCESS: LIFEBOAT OR POLICY SHIFT?
The Biden Administration has sent strong signals of its desire to ramp up aggressiveness in merger enforcement, but a recent flood of filings has caused the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to announce a couple of changes to...
Big tech has become a major target for new antitrust proposals. On June 11 2021, the chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative David Cicilline (Democrat – Rhode Island) made...
There has been a plethora of articles about the Supreme Court’s 21 June 2021 decision upholding a decision that the restrictions imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on education-related...
RESTRUCTURED CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE: WILL HEALTHCARE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT CHANGE?
Prior to stepping down as California’s attorney general to assume his new role as Joe Biden’s secretary of health and human services, Xavier Becerra consolidated all aspects of healthcare enforcement under a new...