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Proposed Federal Trade Commission Rules for Adjudicative Proceedings
Marcia Coyle at the National Law Journal has an article posted this morning about the Federal Trade Commission?s proposing ?new rules to improve and streamline enforcement actions tried before administrative law judges? last Thursday...

Federal Trade Commission Files Amicus Brief in Ciprofloxacin "Reverse Payment" Case
The Federal Trade Commission announced last week that it recently filed an amicus brief in In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, currently pending in the Federal Circuit...

Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol In a potentially significant (and for the most part positive) change for the FTC, Daniel K...

Coate & Fischer on Daubert, Game Theory, and Mergers
Malcolm B. Coate and Jeffrey H. Fischer (U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U...

Behavioral Economics and the Federal Trade Commission
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Former FTC economist Joseph P. Mulholland of Westport63 Consulting has posted the interesting Behavioral Economics and the Federal Trade Commission...

Market Definition, Competition, and Privacy in the Google/DoubleClick Transaction
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Mark Seidman (Federal Trade Commission) & Christine Naglieri (Federal Trade Commission) discuss two of the key issues: market definition in the online advertising industry; and the interplay of competition and privacy concerns in their article...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

My children's school is falsely charging me with truancy. The local district justice works for the school in the most blatently open way. And his wife works for the district, too! They have violated private health record
I am no lawer by any means, so I would love for someone to verify what I have to...

As of right now i am currently residing in a federal halfway house and wish to pursue a 28 U.S.C.1331 civil action lawsuit which initially began in 2003 to the present date.if the litigation is still continuing,can i sti
Give me the specifics and maybe I can tell you if your case is worth trying. Whe...

Century Aluminum Company
CENX

Century Aluminum Company
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.

Taylor Bean Faces Federal WARN Class Action
Taylor Bean Federal Employment Class Action Filed

Federal Government
alleging discrimination against black farmers