JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency the court will rule on the proper test for determining whether wetlands are “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Federal Trade Commission. The court also agreed Monday to hear Axon Enterprise, Inc.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Ghana Federation of Labour, a trade union center, also threatened a nationwide strike if adequate measures against illegal mining were not implemented. He concluded by stating that the authority to revoke the LI lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. He supports his argument with reference to the case of Opremreh v.

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MAY 22, 2025

A Washington federal court has refused the Federal Trade Commission's request to immediately force several Amazon executives to turn over sensitive financial information, ruling the agency must instead wait until after trial in its case accusing the company of trapping consumers into renewing Prime subscriptions.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

US Judge James Boasberg of the District Court of Colombia Tuesday denied a motion of dismissal by tech conglomerate Meta Platforms (previously Facebook) against the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit suing the company for illegally maintaining its personal social network (PSN) monopoly through anticompetitive conduct.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission Thursday sued to block Nvidia Corp’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm from SoftBank on antitrust grounds. The European Commission, for example, announced in October that it is undertaking an in-depth inquiry of the deal. The administrative trial is scheduled to begin on 9 August 2022.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Thursday proposed a new rule which would ban employers from imposing noncompetition clauses onto their workers. The post US trade agency proposes ban on noncompete clauses appeared first on JURIST - News.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Ann Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, both from Silicon Valley, reintroduced on Thursday the Online Privacy Act , a bill that creates user data rights, limits companies’ collection and use of user data, and establishes the Digital Privacy Agency (DPA) to enforce privacy laws. Eshoo and Lofgren previously introduced the Online Privacy Act in 2019.

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MARCH 6, 2025

by Dennis Crouch The United States International Trade Commission (USITC or ITC) operates as an independent, quasi-judicial federal agency the mission of safeguarding US domestic industries from injury caused by foreign imports. This is a protectionist agency. patents.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The FTC regulates antitrust violations through cease-and-desist orders pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Act. Axon filed proceedings in federal district court claiming that agency proceedings violate its due process rights. The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments in Axon Enterprise, Inc.

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Above The Law

MAY 16, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is suing to stop Amgen’s acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics. But rather than claiming product overlap, the agency contends Amgen will use its influence to keep at bay competition for Horizon’s products.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered Illumina to divest Grail, the liquid biopsy company it acquired for more than $7 billion. The agency said Illumina’s proposed remedies are insufficient and the tie-up is likely to reduce competition in the R&D and commercialization of new cancer tests.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

” Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a complaint in which the FTC sought to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard in “Microsoft’s largest [deal] ever and the largest ever in the video gaming industry.”

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MARCH 7, 2025

A former senior official in the Federal Trade Commission's competition group, who helped oversee the agency's healthcare-related anticompetitive enforcement, has joined the antitrust team at White & Case LLP, the firm recently announced.

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MARCH 11, 2025

A recent Federal Circuit decision discarding the U.S. International Trade Commission's limits on what types of domestic expenses qualify a company to bring a patent suit at the agency marks a pronounced shift that will likely spur considerably more ITC cases, attorneys say.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

The GOP has launched an unusual broadside against the Democratic-led Federal Communications Commission's plan to revive net neutrality rules, saying the regime would sap a sister agency, the Federal Trade Commission, of consumer protection powers.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Tuesday reversed insider trading convictions against four defendants over leaks from a US healthcare agency. United States , which clarified federal fraud laws for the misuse of property. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) estimated that the hedge-fund made $3.9

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Law 360

JULY 24, 2024

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan weighed in on a host of topics during a discussion Wednesday at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, expressing concerns about the agency's high legal bills for expert witnesses and describing AI price-setting tools as a potential loophole for collusion.

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JULY 23, 2024

The administrative law judge overseeing the Federal Trade Commission's in-house challenge to Kroger and Albertsons' $25 billion merger has given the agency and the grocery behemoths two extra days on a couple of filing deadlines after the FTC said the worldwide Microsoft outage left several counsel laptops unusable.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Following an agency administrative trial, Altria Group is urging the Federal Trade Commission to reject arguments made by agency lawyers in a challenge to the company's purchase of a 35% stake in e-cigarette maker Juul.

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JUNE 30, 2021

federal judge threw out two antitrust complaints against the social media giant Facebook on Monday in a major loss for federal and state attorneys. It is almost as if the agency expects the Court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist.”

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APRIL 14, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission could soon be fighting to save core parts of its enforcement program after a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that constitutional challenges to the agency can be brought directly to federal court.

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Law 360

JANUARY 11, 2022

federal court handed the Federal Trade Commission a big win Tuesday, rejecting a bid from Facebook to escape the agency's bolstered enforcement action accusing the company of illegally maintaining its monopoly over personal social networking.

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JULY 3, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is standing by its designated agency ethics official following a Wall Street Journal article revealing she owned stock in Meta Platforms Inc. while recommending that Chair Lina Khan recuse herself from the agency's case challenging a Meta deal, according to a statement issued Friday.

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AUGUST 22, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an amended complaint with additional data and evidence against Facebook on Thursday, continuing its antitrust case against the social media giant.

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MAY 20, 2024

Kroger and the Federal Trade Commission are at each other's throats over discovery in the agency's in-house challenge to the grocery giant's $25 billion merger with Albertsons and in district court, with the grocers accusing the agency of "running out the clock" and the FTC accusing the grocers of deleting text messages.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division on October 10 announced approval of long-awaited changes to a premerger notification form that provides information used to screen proposed deals. Critics fear updating the form could also double the filing burden and costs for businesses.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Dawn Stump knows the federal derivatives regulator is always operating in a state of transition. But the agency will soon be down to just two commissioners, and Stump has some concerns.

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JULY 11, 2023

A California federal judge gave the Federal Trade Commission little in the way of a silver lining Tuesday by rejecting virtually every aspect of the agency's challenge of Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard purchase, from the alleged facts of video game distribution to the governing legal standards.

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MAY 30, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission's three Democrats refused Wednesday to delay the agency in-house challenge to Kroger's $24.6 billion purchase of Albertsons, blaming the grocery giants for their scheduling challenges and drawing a sharp dissent from the FTC's two Republicans.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission urged a California federal judge at the start of a seven-day evidentiary hearing Thursday to pause Meta's purchase of virtual reality fitness app maker Within Unlimited while the agency investigates whether the deal is anti-competitive, scoffing at Meta's claim that a preliminary injunction will kill the deal.

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JUNE 14, 2023

sought Wednesday to control the timeline on the Federal Trade Commission's newly filed California federal court lawsuit that they said "is the only decision that matters," not an ongoing agency in-house challenge. With a looming July 18 deadline baked into their merger agreement, Microsoft Corp.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan's efforts to fundamentally overhaul how the agency enforces competition and consumer protection law continue apace with a teed-up vote announced Wednesday to repeal vertical merger guidelines that were only finalized last year over opposition from the FTC's then-Democrat minority.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Chamber of Commerce has lodged a promised lawsuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission's new rule banning noncompete agreements, contending the pacts are good for the economy and that the agency lacks authority to issue the regulation.

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JUNE 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission's and the U.S. Justice Department's recently published summary of the agencies' workshop on proposed changes to pharmaceutical merger analysis reads like a policy roadmap and its timing may forecast the release of new draft merger guidelines, say attorneys at Mintz.

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APRIL 11, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission is actively considering ways to "update" its privacy and data security enforcement strategy, including by looking into establishing new commercial surveillance rules and scrapping companies' reliance on "outdated and inefficient" privacy policies to justify their data practices, the agency's chair said Monday.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission must stay within its "narrow" rulemaking authority as it moves to craft heightened data privacy and security protections, the Washington Legal Foundation argued in comments submitted on the same day the agency revealed it's giving the public more time to provide feedback on the process.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission has stepped up its efforts to curtail the unauthorized disclosure of consumers' sensitive location information, announcing a groundbreaking settlement Tuesday with a data broker that the agency claims unlawfully sold precise location data that could be used to track people to reproductive health clinics, religious worship (..)

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