Competition Rulemaking News Today

On April 23, 2024, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) voted 3-to-2 along party lines to approve a final rule (Rule) that prevents all for-profit employers nationwide from using...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears poised to begin testing the scope of its rulemaking authority, including new substantive competition rules for the first time in decades.[1] On March 25, 2021, FTC Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Slaughter (D) formed a group within the agency’s Office of the General Counsel to centralize FTC rulemakings. In announcing the change, Slaughter said that it was “time for the Commission to activate i...

Various media outlets are reporting that President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Lina Khan, a Pakistani American antitrust scholar and critic of large tech companies, to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission. Khan previously served as a legal advisor in the office of Indian American FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and as legal director at the Open Markets Institute. Khan is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches and writes on a...