States’ consent decrees often ineffective, FTC attorney says

Kathryn Haake

12 April 2018

Huntington, WV

State attorneys general are more willing than the federal antitrust agencies to accept behavioural remedies for mergers, but in doing so they sometimes fail to address the underlying competitive concern, a Federal Trade Commission attorney said yesterday. Kathryn Haake at the ABA Spring Meeting

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