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Autumn 2013, Volume 9, Number 1

SEP-13(1)
 |  Dec 22, 2015

One of the consistently thorny issues in U.S. antitrust law is the rather vague boundary of Section 5 of the FTC Act, which concerns non-merger conduct that may not violate…

What About Green Stamps? A Comment on the FTC’s Section 5 Authority
 |  Nov 23, 2015

Harry First, Sep 16, 2013 Commissioner Joshua Wright has started his tenure as Commissioner by stepping into the long-running debate over the scope of the Commission’s authority. Section 5 of…

A Response To Commissioner Wright’s Proposed Policy Statement Regarding Unfair Methods Of Competition
 |  Nov 23, 2015

Maurice Stucke, Sep 16, 2013 Federal Trade Commissioner Joshua Wright recently proposed a new legal standard to evaluate “unfair methods of competition” under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission…

Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Need for Guidelines
 |  Sep 17, 2013

Daniel Crane, Sep 16, 2013 FTC Commissioners Wright and Olhausen recently have argued that the FTC should issue a policy statement or guidelines regarding enforcement of Section 5 of the…

A Solution in Search of a Problem
 |  Sep 17, 2013

A. Douglas Melamed, Sep 16, 2013 The fundamental problem with the “unfair methods of competition” prong of Section 5 is that it is hopelessly vague. The language is almost meaningless,…

Section 5 Guidelines: Fixing a Problem that Doesn’t Exist?
 |  Sep 17, 2013

Sharis Pozen, Anne Six, Sep 16, 2013 When Congress enacted the Federal Trade Commission Act in 1914, almost 25 years after enacting the Sherman Act, it purposely created a different…

Guiding Section 5: Comments on the Commissioners
 |  Sep 17, 2013

Steven Salop, Sep 16, 2013 FTC Commissioners Joshua Wright and Maureen Ohlhausen have proposed that the Commission adopt Guidelines for the application of Section 5 to Unfair Methods of Competition…

Section 5 Guidelines: Josh Wright as the New King of Corinth?
 |  Sep 17, 2013

Joe Sims, Sep 16, 2013 Thus, it was hardly surprising that one of the first things Commissioner Wright did in his new role was to suggest that it was past…

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