On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to approve issuance of a Final Rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements nationwide.
In this episode of Perfect Balance: An Advertising Law Podcast, host Po Yi is joined by Manatt partners J.J. Rodriguez and Eric Gold, to discuss how this more expansive negative option rule proposed by the FTC.
The Final Rules keep rolling in, but with a twist. Each of the two Final Rules released in March were accompanied by Supplemental Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.
David Reichenberg wrote an article for Forbes about the FTC’s concerns for both consumers and employees when major competitive companies propose a merger.
We ended last month’s update noting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had finalized its Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Rule.
On January 26, 2024, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued new guidance making clear that common collaboration tools and ephemeral messaging applications must...
The term junk fees has been used liberally in recent years, and particularly in the past year, by politicians, regulators, and the media to refer to different types of fees that are charged to consumers by businesses in different industries.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) had a busy December.
On December 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed its first significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in a decade.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) received 105 comments from the public on its proposed trade regulation rule to prohibit marketers from using unfair or deceptive practices involving consumer reviews and testimonials.