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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Randal M. Shaheen
After much conversation, it is now official. Andrew Ferguson is the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission and Lina Khan is not, though she remains until January 31. A lot has been said and written about the outgoing chair’s alleged efforts to ram through a number of controversial complaints and actions during the transition period, so we decided to take a look at FTC actions during another recent transition from one political party to another.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Ralph Mudge |Daniel Kaufman |Randal M. Shaheen
B BakerHostetler More Recognized as one of the top firms for client service, BakerHostetler is a leading national law firm that helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With five core national practice groups — Business, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Tax — the firm has more than 970 lawyers located in 14 offices coast to coast.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Daniel Kaufman |Amy Ralph Mudge |Randal M. Shaheen
On today’s episode of AD Nauseam, Amy and Daniel are back with special guest, Randy Shaheen, a fellow partner at BakerHostetler, to discuss the passing of the FTC’s new Junk Fees Rule. To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog:"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:By using the service, you signify your acceptance of
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Ralph Mudge |Randal M. Shaheen
NAD has amended its SWIFT track processes and procedures multipletimes since its inception in an effort to make sure the process isfair yet efficient. While it met with some nontrivial resistancefrom industry at its inception, it has become incredibly popular,with about a quarter to a third of NAD's docket now consistingof these single-issue cases where a challenger can get a decisionin a month's time.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Randal M. Shaheen
NAD has amended its SWIFT track processes and procedures multiple times since its inception in an effort to make sure the process is fair yet efficient. While it met with some nontrivial resistance from industry at its inception, it has become incredibly popular, with about a quarter to a third of NAD’s docket now consisting of these single-issue cases where a challenger can get a decision in a month’s time.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Amy Ralph Mudge |Randal M. Shaheen |Daniel Kaufman
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Recognized as one of the top firms for client service, BakerHostetler is a leading national law firm that helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With five core national practice groups — Business, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Tax — the firm has more than 970 lawyers located in 14 offices coast to coast.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Daniel Kaufman |Amy Ralph Mudge |Randal M. Shaheen
Historically, changes in administrations did not lead to major changes at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). There were some adjustments around the edges, but the agency mostly operated on a bipartisan basis. Those days, however, are gone, and the election results of last week will make a real change in what to expect from the FTC in 2025 and beyond. Of course, nothing is set in stone as to what to expect from the new administration or the commissioners.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Randal M. Shaheen
NAD 2024 is in the books. It was a jam-packed two days. You’ll hear more about the NAD conference on this site in the days to come, but here are a few quick highlights. First, the conference was notable for the number of senior FTC speakers. Bureau Director Sam Levine, Associate Director for Ad Practices Serena Viswanathan and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak gave the attendees insights into the commission’s past actions and current priorities.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Randal M. Shaheen
NAD 2024 is in the books. It was a jam-packed two days. You’ll hear more about the NAD conference on this site in the days to come, but here are a few quick highlights. First, the conference was notable for the number of senior FTC speakers. Bureau Director Sam Levine, Associate Director for Ad Practices Serena Viswanathan and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak gave the attendees insights into the commission’s past actions and current priorities.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Daniel Kaufman |Amy Ralph Mudge |Randal M. Shaheen
On today’s episode of Ad Nauseam, Amy and Daniel have a returning special guest – Randy Shaheen, their partner at Baker Hostetler in the Advertising Marketing & Digital Media practice. Randy also teaches advertising law at Washington & Lee and will put on his professor hat to guide a discussion on the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision that overturned Chevron, a longstanding doctrine that gave considerable deference to agencies, including the FTC.
