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North Carolina’s State Board of Dental Examiners has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the FTC’s "radical departure" from decades of established precedent.

On September 24, 2013, the Northern District of California certified a class of indirect purchasers in In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litig., No. 3:07-cv-5944 SC, 2013 WL 5391159 (N.D. Cal. September 24, 2013).

A surprising feature of many corporate compliance programs is their limited emphasis on antitrust. Compliance efforts are a key feature of modern corporate governance initiatives, and it stands to reason that such initiatives should include safeguards against the severe reputational and financial penalties that may arise from antitrust violations.

Yesterday, the FTC announced that it reached a settlement in its pay-for-delay lawsuit, FTC v. Cephalon Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, with Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., which acquired Cephalon in 2012.

The Pact app is premised on paying members that complete health-related weekly "pacts" with funds generated by users that fail to do so.

On June 17, 2015, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015 (Act), ..

In Motorola Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp. et al., the Seventh Circuit is currently considering the reach of the Sherman Act beyond United States borders and will join the Second and Ninth Circuits in interpreting some key provisions of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act ("FTAIA").

On July 7, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice announced final changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) reporting form.

The plaintiffs’ antitrust claims in the New Jersey municipal tax lien auction bid-rigging class action may proceed, the federal judge presiding over the litigation has ruled.

It also illustrates that the government is serious when it asks for information about backup data, or for the backup data itself.

On April 10, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued an Antitrust Policy Statement on Sharing of Cybersecurity Information explaining that competitors can share legitimate threat information so long as appropriate safeguards are in place to limit the exchange of competitively-sensitive information.

Investor Len Blavatnik has agreed to pay $656,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the "HSR Act") by failing to obtain clearance prior to acquiring voting securities of TangoMe, Inc..

In April 2014, the New York Public Service Commission’s (NY PSC) Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative "propose[d] a platform to transform New York’s electric industry . . .

Around this time in 2012, the FTC announced a settlement with football mouthguard manufacturer Brain-Pad regarding unsubstantiated concussion prevention claims.

On January 19, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission announced revised thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") Premerger Notification filings and for the jurisdictional thresholds that trigger the prohibition on interlocking directorates under Section 8 of the Clayton Act.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) went head-to-head last week with Sysco Corp. and US Foods Inc. over whether to make public the names of the declarants relied on by the FTC...

When I had Orioles season tickets, I was glad to have access to an electronic platform that would allow me to get rid of most of my unwanted tickets.