Tag: Antitrust law
US: Small business expert up for for FTC commissioner
A veteran of the Obama administration’s Agriculture Department is under consideration to fill the empty Democratic seat on the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces...
From student-athletes to employee-athletes: why a ‘pay for play’ model of...
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From student-athletes to employee-athletes: why a 'pay for play' model of college sports would not necessarily make educational scholarships...
US: FTC names acting Competition Bureau Chief
Antitrust law veteran Abbott Lipsky has been tapped to lead the Federal Trade Commission’s competition bureau on an acting basis, replacing Deborah Feinstein, who...
US: Teva pleased to agree $225 million settlement
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is to pay $225 million to settle a pay-for-delay case dating back to the 1990s.
The case relates to allegations that Barr...
US: Teva wraps up Cipro pay-for-delay
Shortly after paying $520 million to the feds to resolve bribery charges in a couple of markets outside of the US, Teva has agreed...
US: Endo settles FTC allegations that it paid rivals to delay...
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday it had settled litigation that Endo International violated antitrust laws when it entered "anticompetitive reverse-payment" deals with rivals...
US: Two settle charges on failing to file stock buys with...
Danaher co-founder Mitchell Rales agreed to pay $720,000 to settle allegations that he failed to report stock purchases to the government so that they...
US: FTC chairwoman to step down, leaving three vacancies
US Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will step down next month after more than three years as chair and six at the agency...
US: Sessions says ‘No Hesitation’ in enforcing antitrust law
Sen. Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he would enforce the nation's antitrust laws as attorney general and that "certain mergers should not occur."
"I have...
