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13 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Confirmed. White House will nominate Georgetown's Alvaro Bedoya to the third D seat on the FTC. He will replace Rohit Chopra, who was nominated to head of the CFPB.
politico.com/news/2021/09/1…
Back to this news, if Bedoya is confirmed, the FTC will be comprised of three former Senate Judiciary staffers -- Slaughter (Schumer), Phillips (Cornyn), Bedoya (Franken) and a House Judiciary staffer (Khan).
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Sen. Mike Lee giving the keynote at @FedSoc event on Bork’s Antitrust Paradox Image
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15 Sep
. @JusticeATR statement on FTC rescinding the vertical merger guidelines: "The Department of Justice is conducting a careful review of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Vertical Merger Guidelines to ensure they are appropriately skeptical of harmful mergers. /1
"Both documents are designed to provide increased transparency and guidance to the public on how the department makes law enforcement decisions. The department’s review has already identified several aspects of the guidelines that deserve close scrutiny... /2
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15 Sep
Onward. FTC's Open Meeting starts in 25 mins with a new health app privacy statement, rescinding the VMGs and a peek at the little deals by Big Tech. politico.com/newsletters/mo…
Link to the FTC's meeting: view.knowledgevision.com/presentation/a…
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14 Sep
Associate AG Vanita Gupta (DOJ no. 3) gave the keynote today at Georgetown #antitrust. Nothing super newsy in her remarks, but Gupta sought to reframe discussions about antitrust as economic justice
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"Too often, powerful companies exploit consumers and tilt the playing field in favor of the already powerful. But everyone deserves to benefit from a free, fair and competitive economy."
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13 Sep
The National Association of Realtors has filed a petition to force @JusticeATR to go through on the settlement it reached last year to resolve the antitrust suit against the group.
“By its action, the DOJ thinks it should be free to reconsider the terms of an agreement at any time, for any reason – or no reason at all,” NAR President Charlie Oppler said.
The Trump DOJ reached a settlement agreement with NAR last year. The settlement required a public comment period and court approval justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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10 Sep
New 🧵on Epic decision. YGR makes some interesting factual determination that may be contested on appeal.
First that is from some of the sealed economic testimony. A very large share of Apple's app store revenue comes from mobile game transactions.
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