State-Federal Relations

Kathleen Foote, Nov 14, 2012

Antitrust enforcers in the offices of state attorneys general frequently find ourselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to public perceptions of our work. State antitrust enforcement tends to be subject to criticism as misguided-or worse-whenever it diverges publicly from enforcement by the federal agencies. Yet when it doesn’t diverge it is often labeled “redundant” in the pejorative sense of that term. The reality is a good bit diff