Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
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OMI executive director Barry Lynn is quoted on Lina Khan’s origin story, noting that she joined Open Markets fresh out of college.
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Open Markets Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s move to block a merger between two of the nation’s largest grocers, Kroger and Albertsons.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released the following statement regarding the news that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will investigate partnerships between dominant tech giants and artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Google and Anthropic.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in Common Dreams regarding how the new merger guidelines just released by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission “put fealty to law front and center again.”
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Barry Lynn is quoted in the Houston Chronicle from a statement urging US regulators to block both buyouts.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman shines a light on the FTC’s contradictory approval of L3Harris’ acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne in this article.
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Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case of Illumina v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the Fifth Circuit to deny a petition for review in the case.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to oppose Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) $13 billion takeover of prominent mortgage data company Black Knight.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan urges on the much needed proposal by the FTC to ban non-compete clauses across all US industries.
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The Open Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released the following statement applauding the FTC’s decision to propose a ban on non-compete clauses and functionally similar contracts for all workers.
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The Open Markets Institute and Public Citizen led a joint letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alongside consumer advocates and organized labor urging the agency to begin its work on a federal rule banning the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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The Open Markets Institute released the following statement from Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s move to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of major game developer Activision Blizzard
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The Open Markets Institute submits a letter urging the FTC to block the pending merger between grocer giants, Albertsons and Kroger.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes his comments with other antitrust experts regarding the FTC’s most recent policy statement on competition.
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The Open Markets Institute, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a forum of 75 NGOs, have sent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint submission on the privacy, market, and security hazards of surveillance advertising, urging the agency to act against commercial surveillance and to define “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) as an unfair and deceptive practice.
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