For the FTC, a Hollow Victory

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • For the FTC, a Hollow Victory • Under Fire from CFPB, Company Counterattacks • Business Group Eyeing SEC Rules on Security-Based Swaps • U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride in Virginia to Resign • On Tape: Richard Nixon Talks Judicial Nominations • 'Shaky' Eyewitness Identification Dooms Murder Conviction For the FTC, a Hollow Victory After years of litigation culminating in a unanimous win before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission today voted to settle its antitrust suit with the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County and Phoebe Putney Health System,... Read More » Under Fire from CFPB, Company Counterattacks When Morgan Drexen Inc. found itself in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's crosshairs, the company, which works with law firms to provide debt relief services to consumers, initiated a response that's proving to be both unusually aggressive and public. The... Read More » Business Group Eyeing SEC Rules on Security-Based Swaps As the Securities and Exchange Commission finalizes regulations for security-based swaps in international markets, an alliance of business groups is keeping a close watch on companies' bottom lines. In a letter [PDF] sent Wednesday to the SEC, the Coalition for... Read More » U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride in Virginia to Resign A U.S. attorney in charge of several high-profile and controversial cases during Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s tenure is planning to leave his post next month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Neil MacBride, the U.S. attorney for the... Read More » On Tape: Richard Nixon Talks Judicial Nominations Think the recent nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit face some nasty partisan rancor in the Senate confirmation process? Check out the most recently released audio recordings of Richard Nixon's strategy on judicial selection. The... Read More » 'Shaky' Eyewitness Identification Dooms Murder Conviction A Pennsylvania federal judge has vacated the murder conviction of a man who's spent more than 20 years on death row, saying the government built the case around "shaky" eyewitness identification and withheld evidence. The prisoner, James Dennis, was represented... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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