The Federal Trade Commission has been cautioning certain companies that it is still reviewing transactions they are legally permitted to close, according to an agency official.
Munson Healthcare, northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, conspired with rival Traverse Anesthesia Associates to reduce pay for providers of anesthesia services, a new putative class action alleges.
McDonald’s and Jimmy John’s employees are not entitled to litigate their claims of an illegal “no-poach conspiracy” as a nationwide class, two federal courts in Illinois have ruled.
The Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn its case against AbbVie after a Supreme Court ruling in April determined that the agency does not have the authority to seek restitution or disgorgement under …
The Colorado-led coalition of states accusing Google of illegally preserving a monopoly over online search has said the company is stymying its case by delaying the production of data describing a user’s …
Gail Levine – the last of the antitrust holdovers from the Joseph Simons-era at the Federal Trade Commission – departed earlier this month after helping the next administration get situated. The former deputy director of the FTC’s bureau of competition spoke with GCR USA about the need for additional funding and her experience overseeing the agency’s technology and pharmaceutical shops during a pandemic.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a ground-breaking decision in the litigation between doormakers Jeld-Wen and Steves and Son, confirming a divestiture order in a private merger dispute for the first time. Winston & Strawn partners Susannah Torpey and Neely Agin explore how the ruling might be used by private plaintiffs to challenge allegedly anticompetitive deals in technology markets, while also highlighting some of the …
As the Federal Trade Commission’s general counsel, Alden Abbott sought to protect the agency’s ability to claw-back defendants’ ill-gotten gains, helped author its novel 1-800 Contacts decision and consulted regularly with individual commissioners. Now a senior research fellow with George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Abbott spoke with GCR USA about his three-year stint as the FTC's chief legal officer, the agency's Qualcomm case and proposed antitrust policy reforms.
Daniel Francis spent much of his more than three-year tenure at the Federal Trade Commission focused on digital market issues, most recently as deputy director of the Bureau of Competition. In a conversation with GCR USA, he spoke about his agency’s track record tackling nascent competition concerns, the need for more resources and how the high-profile Facebook litigation will help write a new chapter for digital antitrust enforcement.
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