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Oct 16, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Logan Breed |Chris Fitzpatrick |Jill Ottenberg
The Communiqué mirrors many of the recent policy goals that the U.S. antitrust agencies have articulated with respect to competition in AI-related markets, and demonstrates how the priorities of the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division are largely in line with their international counterparts on this issue.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Logan Breed |Edith Ramirez |Chris Fitzpatrick |Jill Ottenberg
On October 3, 2024 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ or the Antitrust Division) participated in the G7 Competition Authorities and Policymakers Summit, which focused on promoting competition in artificial intelligence (AI)-related technologies, products and applications.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Logan Breed |Chuck Loughlin |Jill Ottenberg
In December 2020, under its authority pursuant to 6(b) of the FTC Act, the FTC issued orders to various companies “requiring them to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices, and how their practices affect children and teens.” In the FTC’s September 2024 Report,1 the agency alleges that companies: Collect and “indefinitely retain troves of data from and about users and non-users” in ways that “consumers might not...
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lauren Battaglia |Logan Breed |Michael DeLarco
July 5, 2024 Lauren Battaglia, Logan Breed, Michael DeLarco, George Ingham, Tao Leung, Chuck Loughlin, Jill Ottenberg Hogan Lovells + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On July 3, 2024, a Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction postponing the September 4, 2024 effective date of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s final rule banning non-compete agreements (the Non-Compete Rule) as to plaintiffs Ryan, LLC,...
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Logan Breed |Ilana Kattan |Chuck Loughlin
9 See id. at 7-35. 10 Id. at 5. 11 Id. at 16 (quoting Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134, 140 (1944)). 12 Id. at 3513 The FTC’s rulemaking authority is governed by Section 6(g) of the FTC Act. 15 U.S.C. Sec. 46(g), “Additional powers of Commission.”14 See Federal Trade Commission, “Policy Statement Regarding the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition Under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act,” Commission File No. P221202 (Nov. 10, 2022) available here.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Lauren Battaglia |Logan Breed |Michael DeLarco |George Ingham |Tao Leung |Chuck Loughlin | +1 more
On July 3, 2024, a Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction postponing the September 4, 2024 effective date of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s final rule banning non-compete agreements (the Non-Compete Rule) as to plaintiffs Ryan, LLC, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Texas Association of Business, and Longview Chamber of Commerce.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Hogan Lovells |Logan Breed |Chuck Loughlin |Ilana Kattan
Previous article Next article Share on | On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated decision overturning the 40-year old precedent established in Chevron, U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Hogan Lovells |Logan Breed |Chuck Loughlin |Ilana Kattan
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated decision overturning the 40-year old precedent established in Chevron, U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. [1] Under the Chevron doctrine, courts were required to give deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of the statutes they administer when those statutes were ambiguous. The court’s 6-3 decision (along party lines) to eliminate “Chevron deference” leaves interpretations of administrative statutes...
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lauren Battaglia |Justin Bernick |Logan Breed
The rule represents an unprecedented effort by the FTC to assert broad rulemaking authority, and has already been challenged in court. Thus, employers may wish to adopt a “wait-and-see” approach for the time being rather than rushing to make changes in response to this rule. The publication of the final non-compete rule concludes an eighteen month deliberation stemming from the Commission’s issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in January 2023.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Robert Baldwin |Logan Breed |Ken Field
In late January 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released an updated operating plan in the event Congress does not pass a funding bill and the government shuts down. In a dramatic departure from prior practice, the FTC for the first time plans to also close down its premerger filing operations during such a scenario. This change will prevent merging parties from making required Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) filings and starting required HSR pre-closing waiting periods during the shutdown.
