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March 18, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission, which is subject to some of the same DOGE disruptions as other federal agencies, nonetheless is committed to devoting resources to pursuing actions against Big Tech.
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March 18, 2025
Former Federal Trade Commissioner Joshua Wright has withdrawn his $108 million defamation lawsuit against two women who alleged he engaged in sexual misconduct.
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March 18, 2025
Bill Gates is known as a visionary entrepreneur and influential philanthropist, but his abrupt personality and minimal social graces have notoriously rubbed others the wrong way. They’ve even used a four-letter word to describe him: jerk.
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March 18, 2025
When professionals think about the core function of antitrust law, they generally have in mind merger enforcement. But in the new post-consolidation economy, equal attention now has to be paid to single-firm conduct by companies that already have market power. High on that list of questionable conduct is the use of exclusive dealing contracts by a monopolist.
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February 25, 2025
State enforcers expect to continue cooperating with federal officials in their antitrust investigations as they stress the important role of a harmonious approach to antitrust law.
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February 25, 2025
A series of all-staff memos sent by new Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson over the last month offers a glimpse into the shifting culture at an agency facing demands for change from the White House alongside real risks of budget cuts, major layoffs and a potential restructuring of the agency.
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February 25, 2025
Former Federal Trade Commissioner Joshua Wright’s defamation case against two former students and colleagues who accused him of sexual harassment will begin on March 10 in a Virginia state court.
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February 25, 2025
Phil Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, is seeking higher office, with a bid for governor of his state for the 2026 election.
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February 25, 2025
In recent weeks, the Federal Trade Commission has brought the issue of the “right to repair” agricultural equipment into the courtroom, challenging manufacturer Deere & Co. over its practices. Now, “right to repair” bills have come before legislators in several state capitals.
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February 25, 2025
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the FBI have launched a new online portal for information on international fugitives who have been charged with antitrust offenses and other crimes affecting the competitive process.
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February 25, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk is shaking up the federal government through his work with the Department of Government Efficiency. He took a similar approach when he bought Twitter in 2022 and massively restructured it.
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February 25, 2025
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants it to be easier for the president to fire him and other commissioners. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has asserted more control over the regulatory agenda of the FTC and other independent agencies.
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February 25, 2025
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has appointed David Shaw as principal deputy director and Kelse Moen as deputy director of the agency’s Bureau of Competition. He also named Douglas C. Geho as deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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February 25, 2025
Gail Slater, who is President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next antitrust chief of the Department of Justice, told lawmakers noncompete clauses, consolidation in food and pharmaceuticals, and Big Tech’s entrenched dominance are a concern, while signaling openness to accepting settlement offers in problematic mergers.
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February 25, 2025
April 2-4 — The American Bar Association’s 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting will be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://events.americanbar.org/event/D8799C1F-0CB0-4D81-81B0-5E031F555BDC/summary.
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February 25, 2025
Monica Smith has joined the antitrust boutique law firm of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider as a counsel.
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February 25, 2025
Ouch, the value of experience! On Jan. 31, the Federal Trade Commission lost its bid for an injunction against mattress-maker Tempur Sealy’s buyout of the retail chain Mattress Firm. That hurt since the case had represented the agency’s best chance to get a litigated win against an important vertical merger. But all parties can still find some useful lessons in it.
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February 11, 2025
The antitrust review of Getty Images’ acquisition of rival Shutterstock is expected to focus on the companies’ overlapping businesses in non-exclusive visual images, the advantage they will have on search engines and the power it will give them over freelancers.
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February 11, 2025
Feb. 20 — Federal Trade Commission member Melissa Holyoak is participating in a fireside chat at WilmerHale’s Washington, DC, office. The event also has a virtual option. For more information, go to: https://www.wilmerhale.com.
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February 11, 2025
Switzerland’s historically neutral political stance and its privacy laws have enabled Phoenix Technologies to thrive as a sovereign Swiss cloud and AI platform, executives from the company told FTCWatch in a recent interview.
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February 11, 2025
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in California federal court to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed $14 billion buyout of smaller rival Juniper Networks.
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February 11, 2025
Leading Republicans have accused the US government of targeting conservatives, and in connection with that charge, an executive order on “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government” explicitly calls out the Federal Trade Commission.
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February 11, 2025
More than a billion notices were sent to people last year informing them their data had been breached, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center.
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February 11, 2025
The impact of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer to employees at the Federal Trade Commission remains unclear as a federal judge postponed the deadline in light of a lawsuit challenging the offer’s legality.
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February 11, 2025
The issue of presidential influence looms over the federal government this month. President Donald Trump has been firing career attorneys at the Justice Department who had once investigated him. At the Federal Trade Commission, his new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, has been signaling that his views on competition issues will be closely aligned with Trump’s.