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'Are You Really Free If Your Groceries Are So Expensive You Can't Afford Them?' Asks Former FTC Chair Lina Khan, Challenging Corporate Power
For years, Americans have been told the free market is working just fine. But former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan ...
Opinion
Hiltzik: How Big Business killed the 'click-to-cancel' FTC rule, which would have saved consumers billions
The FTC's 'click to cancel' rule would have wiped out a practice that allowed some businesses to scam their customers. That's why businesses got it killed ...
Judge Slaps Down FCC Rule That Would’ve Made It Easy to Cancel Your Subscriptions
On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited rule would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to ...
US appeals court blocks FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for subscriptions
A U.S. appeals court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have required companies to ...
The 8th Circuit Court Was Right To Kill the FTC's 'Click-to-Cancel' Rule
The Federal Trade Commission ignored mandatory regulatory impact analyses in an attempt to institute its "click-to-cancel" ...
‘Click-To-Cancel’ Subscription Policy Shut Down By Federal Appeal
The Federal Trade Commission's plan to protect consumers from harmful subscription practices with "click-to-cancel" policy has failed.
Biden-Era FTC Competition Chief Rejoins Covington & Burling
The former director of anticompetitive activity at Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission has taken a job co-leading the ...
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
A federal appeals court today struck down a "click-to-cancel" rule that would have required companies to make cancelling ...
Appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule just days before rollout
The court's decision arrived just days before the rule's implementation. The three-judge panel found that the FTC, under the ...
Appeals court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule
Just days before federal government was to enforce the so-called click-to-cancel rule, an appeals court struck it down, ...
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The ‘Hands-Off’ FTC That Can’t Help Getting Involved
Whatever your take on the FTC’s conditional approval of the Omnicom/IPG deal, one thing’s clear: Ferguson is being more ...
Federal court blocks Biden-era ‘click to cancel’ rule designed to ease unsubscribing
The rule in question would have required streaming video platforms to make the subscription cancellation process take as few steps as signing up.