JONES DAY TALKS®: Consumer Protection Enforcement Changes Likely After SCOTUS AMG Decision
Key Takeaways from the AMG Capital Management v. FTC Decision
Private Equity (PE) has been a popular and frequent target of the Biden Administration’s recent antitrust enforcement efforts. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division...more
The United States Supreme Court decided two antitrust cases for October Term 2020. The first case, AMG Capital Management v. Federal Trade Commission, unanimously held that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not...more
On August 11, 2020, in FTC v. Qualcomm, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a May 21, 2019 judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and vacated the district court’s...more
LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Virginia Law Limiting Use of “Milk” Advances - Following a vote in the Virginia House Agriculture Subcommittee, the state’s House of Delegates will reportedly consider a bill that...more
The Situation: Overruling its precedent, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") may not seek restitution under FTC Act Section 13(b) because the statute,...more
Courts have long lamented that “computing damages in a trade secret case is not cut and dry,” Am. Sales Corp. v. Adventure Travel, Inc., 862 F. Supp. 1476, 1479 (E.D. Va. 1994), meaning that “every [trade secret] case...more
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit ruled in the long awaited O’Bannon v. NCAA case, which challenged NCAA rules that bar student-athletes from “being paid for the use of their names, images, and likenesses” (NILs) – part of the...more