You’ve got a friend in me: The Tipline for 13 September 2019

The head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division yesterday outlined past and future relationships among the international antitrust community, and said he had directed the agency to review its international guidelines – which in the current version are a joint production with the Federal Trade Commission – with an eye toward reflecting US legal precedents, the importance of comity and “the symmetry that we expect from our international counterparts.” Meanwhile, the DOJ and FTC have teamed up to push back on a dental board’s claims of state-action immunity, and Makan Delrahim takes to the pages of USA Today.