FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson has appointed Emma Mittelstaedt Burnham as Associate Director for Healthcare in the Bureau of Competition. Burnham’s background includes 11 years as a prosecutor for the Antitrust Division of U.S. DOJ, where she most recently served as Director of Criminal Enforcement.

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Twenty-two Republican AGs, led by Indiana AG Todd Rokita, submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in support of the agency’s proposed rule to end federal contracting regulations that require certain contractors to take affirmative steps to ensure equal employment opportunity, including developing and maintaining affirmative action plans. In the comment, the…

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Twenty Democratic AGs, led by Colorado AG Phil Weiser, have submitted a letter to the U.S. DOJ opposing its proposed settlement in the antitrust litigation related to the $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and Juniper Networks, Inc. In the letter, the AGs argue that public information raises concerns that the merger…

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The FTC approved a final order against Workado, LLC, a company that markets artificial intelligence (AI) content detection products, over claims that it misrepresented the accuracy and efficacy of its technology. In the complaint, the FTC alleged that the AI model powering Workado’s AI Content Detector was trained primarily on academic content, contrary to the…

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued its remedies decision in an antitrust case brought against Google by a bipartisan coalition of 38 AGs and the DOJ. This decision follows the court’s 2024 finding that Google violated the Sherman Act by maintaining a monopoly in the markets for general search services and…

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