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 antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, and the antimonopoly tradition.
She has focused on how the current antitrust regime is unequipped to capture the power of dominant digital platforms, according to her website.
With growing momentum behind efforts to reform and strengthen US antitrust enforcement, a decades-long trend toward increasing market concentration may soon be confronted head-on. But enforcement alone will not cure what ails the US economy – especially not when US consumers themselves are smitten with the monopolists.
In 2016, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission issued guidance alerting human resource professionals that an “agreement among competing.
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remedy in equity was warranted considering the balance of hardships between plaintiff and defendant; and
the public interest would not be disserved by a permanent injunction.
The court held that the first two factors were satisfied following testimony that Steves would likely go out of business by September 2021 without equitable relief. As to the third factor, the court held that the threat to Steves’s survival outweighed Jeld-Wen’s hardships, which could be mitigated by ordering the divested entity to sell Jeld-Wen as many doorskins as needed for two years. Finally, the court concluded that the divestiture would be in the public interest because it would restore competition to the doorskin market. The court ordered the divestiture of the Towanda plant, to be auctioned if the order was affirmed on appeal.