On the heels of President-Elect Trump’s announcement of the appointment of Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and designation of current Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as the agency’s chair, the FTC...more
As January 20, 2025, approaches, antitrust practitioners and the business communities are searching for clues whether the incoming Trump Administration and its antitrust officials will continue the Biden Administration’s...more
11/20/2024
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On September 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) filed a monopolization suit against Visa, Inc. (“Visa”), alleging that Visa has a monopoly in general purpose debit network services and general...more
10/1/2024
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On Monday, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a 277-page opinion finding Google liable for monopolizing the general search services and general search text ads markets....more
Since the beginning of Chair Khan’s tenure at the Federal Trade Commission (and in line with President Biden’s aim to curb rising health care costs), the current FTC has committed to bring enforcement actions against health...more