Category Archives: Federal Trade Commission

DOJ & FTC Squabble Over Section 2 Guidelines

After a series of joint meetings to help clarify enforcement standards for single firm conduct, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, issued a report on its own.  Three FTC Commissions almost immediately critisized the report as going to far in insulating single firm conduct from antitrust scrutiny.  To read the report, click here.

FTC Seeks to Block Estimatics Systems Merger

Update March 2009: The parties decided to abandon the merger. The FTC voted 3-0 with one Commissioner recusing to challenge the $1.4 billion merger between two of the three providers of systems used to estimate the value of junk autos and crash repairs.  The Commission contended that it would lessen competition by making collusion more […]