On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14036 Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The aim of the order is “to promote the interests of American workers, businesses, and consumers.” The order establishes the White House Competition Council. The mission of the council is to “coordinate, promote, and advance Federal Government efforts to address overconcentration, monopolization, and unfair […]
In Van Buren v. United States, decided on June 3, 2021, the US Supreme Court clarified the reach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.) The case involved a police sergeant who, in return for a bribe, used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a license plate […]
On April 22, 2021, the US Supreme Court decided AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission. The case involved a complaint filed in district court by the Federal Trade Commission (the “Commission”) against Scott Tucker and his companies alleging deceptive payday lending practices in violation of §5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (the “Act”). The FTC […]
On April 5th, the US Supreme Court decided Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. ___ (2021). This widely watched case involved Application Programming Interface (API) software that is part of Sun Java SE. The software is owned by Oracle. Google copied parts of the API for use in its Android operating platform and in doing so Oracle alleged […]