Why Android Enforcement Action Is Potentially Counterproductive and Unlikely to Succeed
Stephen Houck, Special Counsel to Offit Kurman, P.A., played a prominent role in the prosecution of the government’s monopolization case […]
In 1996, then-Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition Bill Baer gave a speech defending the FTC’s budget titled “The Dollar and Sense of Antitrust Enforcement.” The speech highlighted the real savings its actions have provided consumers. This year, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter tweeted “Proud to serve at a govt agency that takes money from lawbreakers and returns it to their victims—more than $2.3B last fiscal year, almost 8x our annual budget. Congrats & thx to our amazing consumer-protection staff.”
There are two agencies that enforce antitrust law: the Antitrust Div...
