The FTC’s consumer protection mission is closely related to the Commission’s role in protecting competitive markets, because markets organize and drive our economy. Consumer protection policy can profoundly enhance the vast economic benefits of competition by strengthening the market, or it can reduce these benefits by unduly hampering the competitive …read more
May 7, 2014
Canada’s CRTC, one of three federal agencies that will be administering and enforcing Canada’s upcoming federal anti-spam legislation (CASL), has issued new Frequently Asked Questions. I will likely write more on this once I have parsed through the new FAQs. In the meantime, here is a link (the …read more
You remember American Needle, right? It is the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that explains when the action of a joint venture is the action of a single entity or, instead, the result of an agreement among the …read more
On May 1, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release concerning the antitrust risks involved in trade association activity and cautioned such groups that the Commission continues to maintain an active antitrust enforcement focus on trade association activity. Interestingly, the release does not appear to have been the …read more