In Bloomberg Law, CFJ's John Reeves argues that DOJ's RealPage suit mistakes algorithmic pricing for collusion and threatens AI innovation and antitrust law.

CFJ Executive Director Ashley Baker will be a panelist at Steptoe’s Sixth Annual Regulatory Symposium on May 14. Ashley will be part of the breakout session entitled “Antitrust and the First Amendment.”

If a business uses ingenuity and business acumen to achieve such dominance, it has done nothing wrong—to the contrary, it has helped consumers through the competitive process. Business acumen can include a refusal to deal with rivals. The later is exactly what Google did with Play Store in the market for smartphone apps. Yet the district court has punished Google for these actions and forced it to open its Play Store to all of its rivals, without any conditions.

In National Review, CFJ's James Edwards argues that Congress should pass the One Agency Act and give the Justice Department sole antitrust enforcement authority.

The Committee for Justice writes in support of the FY2025 Appropriations Bill’s provisions related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

In RealClearMarkets, CFJ's James Edwards argues that the Khan FTC is overreaching at the nexus of antitrust and intellectual property, from march-in rights to pharmaceutical patents.

CFJ's 5th Circuit amicus brief opposes the FTC’s attempt to block a merger between Illumina and Grail, maker of a breakthrough cancer test.

Last November, the Federal Trade Commission accepted comments on its proposal to start a rulemaking related to "Commercial Surveillance" - the agency's newly minted term for any and all business use of data about customers. The FTC has for decades sought to protect consumer privacy and data security through case-by-case application of its general consumer protection authority. It also is charged with rulemaking in a few narrow areas of privacy and data security. In practice,

It (was) almost Festivus. And in 2022, when it comes to the topic of antitrust, the rest of us have more grievances than ever to air.