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F.T.C. May Put Unusual Condition on Ad Mega-Merger: No Boycotting
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from ...
Why the International Trade Commission is such an appealing forum for patent disputes
Bert Reiser and Ruthie Wu of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP discuss the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's ...
Trump’s FTC is digging into Elon Musk’s claims about an advertiser ‘boycott’
Plus, ICE removes a top TikToker, Steve Bannon is back on Spotify, and the University of Michigan backtracks on student ...
FTC seeks information from top ad agencies as part of ad-boycott probe, WSJ reports
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sought information from some of the world's top advertising firms as part of a probe ...
FTC Pivots From Competition to Children
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) summit last week on protecting children online previewed an odd pivot. Apparently, the ...
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How America’s Forgotten Second National Park Lost Its Federal Status—and Gained a New Lease on Life as a State Park
Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...