A coalition of some of the US’s largest supermarkets and grocers has put pressure on officials at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block a merger between pharmacy benefit managers Medco and Express Scripts.

The US Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Omnicare’s hostile bid for its rival PharMerica, saying a merger of the country’s two largest long-term care pharmacies had the potential to harm competition.

Lawyers for two rival powder paint companies have won the right to transfer the US Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit attempting to block their merger out of federal court in Washington, DC.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced it will not seek a Supreme Court judgment on its monopolisation case against pharmaceutical company Lundbeck, marking the end of a protracted antitrust battle.

Private antitrust lawsuits against PoolCorp, the world’s largest pool product wholesaler are accumulating, following its behavioural settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in November.

Privacy body the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) has asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to expand its investigation of Google’s dominance of the online search market to include social networking tool Google+.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday cleared propane company AmeriGas’s US$2.9 million acquisition of ETP’s Heritage Propane, with commitments.

The US Federal Trade Commission’s administrative law judge has ruled that ProMedica Health System’s purchase of rival Ohio-area hospital St Luke’s harmed competition in the region’s health care market. The ruling’s publication comes exactly one year after the commission first sued to stop the deal.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused the three largest US suppliers of iron pipe fittings of participating in a cartel to increase prices and defending the monopolistic position of one of the businesses.

US boutique Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider have hired former FTC official Morris Bloom, adding bench depth to the firm’s Washington, DC, and New York offices.

Venable has hired Robert Davis, former attorney adviser to US Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, as counsel in its Washington, DC antitrust practice.

Antitrust agency heads from the US, Canada and Mexico met in New York on Monday to discuss policy issues and cement co-operation between the four authorities

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost an appeal against a hospital merger in Georgia, which was approved by a lower court under state action immunity legislation.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered divestments in a merger between two paternity testing businesses, it announced yesterday.

The US government confirmed on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation of potential anti-competitive activity in the e-books market, adding to the growing list of competition enforcers to examine the industry.