Bloomberg Law
April 13, 2018, 8:56 PM UTC

FTC on the Hunt for Cases to Challenge Unfair Conduct

Federal Trade Commission attorneys are looking for more cases to challenge companies’ anticompetitive conduct, an official said April 13.

“We’re open for business and we’re looking for cases,” said Bruce Hoffman, who heads the FTC’s division enforcing competition policy, at the American Bar Association’s annual antitrust conference in Washington. “My phone number is pretty easy to find.”

FTC has the authority to bring civil charges against companies that engage in unlawful anticompetitive conduct like unfair pricing or sham lawsuits to squeeze out rivals. The Justice Department can bring both civil claims and criminal charges against that type of conduct and ...

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