4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (558+ words) Following the 2024 election, many progressives thought they could work with the Trump administration on antitrust policy. Progressive hopes were soon dashed as Trump’s FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson abandoned the “neo-Brandeisianism” of the Biden years that sought to block even those…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (267+ words) Following the 2024 election, many progressives thought they could work with the Trump administration on antitrust policy. Progressive hopes were soon dashed as Trump’s FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson abandoned the “neo-Brandeisianism” of the Biden years that sought to block even those…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (686+ words) A California lawmaker scaled down her bill to let the “little guy” sue big business, and the compromise helped her anti-monopoly proposal reach Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Assembly Bill 1776, nicknamed the Compete Act, was the subject of hot debate throughout…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (686+ words) A California lawmaker scaled down her bill to let the “little guy” sue big business, and the compromise helped her anti-monopoly proposal reach Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Assembly Bill 1776, nicknamed the Compete Act, was the subject of hot debate throughout…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (517+ words) California lawmakers have sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would hand state prosecutors broader authority to challenge big businesses accused of squeezing out competitors, capping months of tense negotiations between consumer advocates and some of the state’s most influential…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (412+ words) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned that growing corporate consolidation is giving a small group of powerful companies and CEOs outsized influence over Americans' everyday choices, urging regulators to block mega-mergers. On Saturday, in a post on X, Warren argued that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (485+ words) California could give state prosecutors greater power to challenge the behavior of dominant companies under legislation awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision, marking a potential shift in how the state pursues competition cases. The proposal, AB 1776, cleared the California Legislature and…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (146+ words) Democratic Assembly member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, of Winters, is seen during the Assembly session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday Aug.19,,2024.Rich Pedroncelli for POLITICO SACRAMENTO, California — State lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom that would expand the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (121+ words) Bloomberg Government News California lawmakers approved a measure Sunday to broaden the scope of the state’s antitrust laws, opening the door for public prosecutors to crack down on anticompetitive practices by individual companies. Lawmakers voted largely along party lines to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (644+ words) The Senate amendments narrow the California Law Revision Commission’s (CLRC’s) initial proposal, which was largely adopted by the Assembly, ultimately bringing the proposed state antitrust legislation closer to familiar federal Sherman Act Section 2 concepts. In 2022, the California Legislature directed the…...