Tag: US
NY AG Warns Against COVID Testing Price Gouging
New York Attorney General Letitia James' office issued an alert Tuesday asking consumers to report any potential price gouging of at-home testing kits after...
MLB’s Antitrust Exemption Faces New Legal Challenge
Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption is facing a new legal test. On Monday, lawyers representing the parent companies of four former minor-league teams (the...
Mega Publisher Deal Asks Judge To Reject US Antitrust Suit
Two major book publishers told a judge a US Justice Department antitrust lawsuit should be rejected, calling the government's arguments "legally, factually, and economically...
FTC Announces Agenda For Dec 16 Open Commission Meeting
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced that an open meeting of the Commission will be held virtually on Thursday, December 16, 2021....
US Aerospace Exec Charged With Antitrust Conspiracy
A former Connecticut executive with Pratt and Whitney has been charged in federal court with an alleged long-running conspiracy involving hiring practices, reported the...
Democrats Want Probes On Whether Facebook Misled Advertisers
Two powerful Senate Democrats are calling federal enforcers to probe whether Facebook misled customers and investors about key advertising metrics, an allegation at the...
Bausch & Lomb, Glaxo Unit Face Medical Antitrust Suit
Pharmavite, which markets Nature Made nutritional supplements, brought federal antitrust claims in Los Angeles against Bausch & Lomb and a GlaxoSmithKline Plc subsidiary, claiming they’re using...
US Senator Cantwell Asks FTC To Probe Meta’s Facebook
The chair of the US Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday asked a regulator to investigate whether Meta Platforms' Facebook misled its advertising customers and...
US & EU Watchdogs Unite To Boost Tech Competition
On Tuesday two US government agencies said that they and the European Commission have launched a dialogue focused on competition policy and enforcement in...
US DOJ Hones In On Apple’s Treatment Of Roblox
The US Department of Justice is looking for instances in which Apple is unevenly enforcing rules for app developers such as gaming firm Roblox and some...