Trump administration presses high court to ban reviews of official firings
While the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to let presidents fire members of the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies for any reason, it also wants to deprive federal courts of the power to overturn a firing decision.
Real but limited effects from the Ticketmaster complaint
Imagine going to the Ticketmaster website, happily clicking on two concert seats for $490, but ultimately being charged a checkout price of $662 — 23 percent more — after the addition of taxes and mandatory fees. Then feeling ripped off.
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Privacy Corner: Don Bell’s crusade against surveillance ramps up
Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s global surveillance program when Don Bell was in law school.
States band together on privacy as Congress considers law
A decade ago, one state attorney general’s office set up a section specifically to focus on privacy. Since then, almost 20 states, including Connecticut, the home of that section, have enacted new...
Examining the firewall fix in vertical deals
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have used firewalls to remedy anticompetitive mergers for years, but doubts persist over their effectiveness.
State AGs accuse Redfin, Zillow of unlawful deal
A day after the Federal Trade Commission sued online housing platforms Redfin and Zillow, five state attorneys general filed a similar lawsuit on Oct. 1 against the companies, calling the $100...
Trump FTC invites other enforcers to chart new path on noncompetes
A nationwide ban on noncompete agreements previously pursued by the Federal Trade Commission is dead, but the Trump administration wants other government antitrust lawyers and the private bar to...
Google faces risky next chapter in watershed privacy case
A month after Google lost a $426 million jury verdict over its disclosures about its logging of users’ app activity, the case is poised to move into a new phase that exposes the tech giant to up to...
Kennedy explains his judicial philosophy
Most Supreme Court justices are easy to label and have judicial philosophies that make their opinions predictable.