FTC Enforcement

The Eight Circuit, in FTC v. Lundbeck, Inc., No. 10-3458/3459 (Aug. 19, 2011), upheld the district court’s finding that the FTC failed to show a relevant market, and thus was unable to challenge the…

What really has the world come to when a merger to monopoly followed by a 1300% price increase survives Section 7 challenge? That, sadly, seems to be the final result in Federal Trade Commission v…

Maureen K. Ohlhausen, a Washington, D.C. attorney and former Federal Trade Commission staffer, will likely be returning to the agency as a Commissioner. Yesterday evening, the White House announced…

Yesterday, I released a paper at the Center for American Progress on the Obama antitrust record. In the paper, entitled "Reinvigorating Antitrust Enforcement: The Obama Administration's Progressive…

Some of Google’s critics analogize Google’s conduct today to that of Microsoft’s during its heyday of the 1990s:  Like Microsoft, Google is big.  Like Microsoft, Google has hampered the opportunities…

Today Google announced that the FTC had opened an investigation of its search practices.  This is an issue I have given considerable thought to.  In an article I just released—Internet Search…

Some commentators are pretty alarmed over the Federal Trade Commission’s ruling earlier this year denying antitrust immunity for a North Carolina regulatory board’s outlawry of teeth-whitening by non…

Today, the Federal Trade Commission released a plan for dealing with a government shutdown that would occur if Congress fails to enact appropriations by a midnight deadline. A shutdown looked likely…

A decision to watch for this year is the Eighth Circuit’s pending consideration of FTC v. Lundbeck, Inc., 2010-2 Trade Cases ¶77,160; 2010 WL 3810015 (D. Minn. Aug. 31, 2010).  (While I helped draft…