antitrust

Antitrust Agency Turf War Over Big Tech Investigations

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Temple Law alumnus Carl Hittinger discusses the positions of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice as calls for antitrust investigations into “Big Tech” companies escalate. The agencies, which share civil antitrust enforcement authority, reportedly are tussling over the right to investigate social media, online retail, search engine, and app store companies, raising the possibility of wasted resources, duplicative investigations, inconsistent positions, and confusion.

Judge Dolores K. Sloviter’s Antitrust Legacy

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Third Circuit Judge Dolores K. Sloviter retired in 2016, leaving behind a remarkable legacy. As a member of the bench for nearly 40 years, Judge Sloviter’s contribution to the Third Circuit’s jurisprudence bridges the expanse of the Court’s jurisdiction. Ranking these contributions would prove difficult. At the top of any list, however, would be Judge

Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World

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Futuristic Roads

Talk of a post-scarcity society can easily sound like the stuff of science fiction, or techno-utopianism, or worse, blithe ignorance of the billions of people on the planet for whom real scarcity of basic needs is very much an entrenched difficulty of the present. Nevertheless, the convergence of a series of technological developments has convinced