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A Chair With No Legs? Legal Constraints On The Competition Rulemaking...

By Jennifer Cascone Fauver Upon her appointment to the chair position of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan wasted little time asserting that the...
Amazon

Amazon Accuses FTC Staff Of Harassing Bezos

Amazon accused the Federal Trade Commission staff of taking “unusual and perplexing” measures in its investigation of the company’s Prime subscription business. The FTC has...
Healthcare

FTC Warns Against Shielding Hospital Mergers From Antitrust Enforcement

A report from the Federal Trade Commission is warning state lawmakers about the dangers of shielding hospital mergers from federal antitrust scrutiny in exchange...
Crypto

US FTC Probes $200M Bitmark Crypto Hack

In what is its first investigation into cryptocurrency markets, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into the Bitmark currency exchange over the December 2021 hack...

FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips To Step Down

According to a report from Politico, Noah Phillips, one of two Republican commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to step down.  FTC Commissioner...
Metaverse

Meta Pauses Acquisition Of VR Firm Over FTC Suit

With a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hanging over its head, Facebook’s parent company Meta is pausing its planned acquisition of the...
FTC

FTC Takes Action Against First American’s Exit Fees

The Federal Trade Commission has accused payment processor First American Payment Systems and two of its sales affiliates of “trapping small businesses with hidden terms, surprise...

FTC Chair Khan Reportedly Overruled Staff To Sue Meta

Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan overruled staff advice to intervene in a Meta virtual reality studio acquisition, Bloomberg reports. Sources reportedly told Bloomberg that...
Meta

FTC Sues To Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed for an injunction to block Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from buying a virtual reality...
FTC

US Chamber Of Commerce Sues FTC Over Biden Antitrust Threat

The US Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Federal Trade Commission that accuses it of unlawfully withholding public records. The Chamber,...
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