Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, BLOG TRACKER—Noteworthy blog posts and other commentary, (May 5, 2016)

The week’s most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts regarding antitrust and trade regulation issues:

• Antitrust Today, “The Antitrust Week in Review”

• Antitrust Alert, “When Customer Supply Contracts Lead to Trouble: Exclusive Dealing Provisions Result in FTC Monopolization Action against Invibio,” by Melanie A. Hallas

• The Franchise Contrarian, “Franchising and the FMLA—Employer’s Guide,” by Jim Meaney

• All About Advertising, “Walgreens’ Settlement—Beware How you Describe Your Deals,” by Randy Shaheen, Amy Mudge, and Christopher Boone

• Antitrust Update, “Tobacco Cases Expose Tension Between Antitrust and Public Health,” by Jonathan H. Hatch and Kathrina Szymborski

• Truth on the Market, “Acknowledging the Limitations of the FTC’s ‘PAE’ Study,” by Devlin Hartline (George Mason University School of Law)

• Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, “Antitrust and Democracy: Perspectives from Efficiency and Equity,” by D. Daniel Sokol (University of Florida Levin College of Law)

• Antitrust Advocate, “Scalia’s Antitrust Legacy: Part 2, The Dissenting Opinions,” by Carl Hittinger and Julian Perlman

• Antitrust Law Source, “ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting 2016: Clarifying liability in hub-and-spoke conspiracies,” by Jetta Sandin

• Ad Law Access, “Federal Court Finds Amazon Liable for Kids’ In-App Purchases,” by Crystal N. Skelton

• Proskauer on Advertising Law, “The FTC Trims the Fat Off Even More Companies Selling Weight Loss Products,” by Alexander Kaplan, Jennifer Yang, and Russell Kostelak

• AntitrustConnect Blog, “FTC v. Invibio: Another Missed Opportunity to Provide Guidance,” by Steven J. Cernak

• The New York Times, “Everyone Wants to Get Tough on Antitrust Policy, but Not Really,” by Chris Sagers (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)

Have you seen (or written) a blog post that fits the bill? Send a note to ALD@wolterskluwer.com, with a link to the suggested post.

Attorneys: Steven J. Cernak (Schiff Hardin LLP); Melanie A. Hallas (McDermott Will & Emery); Jonathan H. Hatch and Kathrina Szymborski (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP); Carl Hittinger and Julian Perlman (Baker & Hostetler LLP); Alexander Kaplan, Jennifer Yang, and Russell Kostelak (Proskauer Rose LLP); Jim Meaney (The Zaino Law Group); Randy Shaheen, Amy Mudge, and Christopher Boone (Venable LLP); Jetta Sandin (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP); Crystal N. Skelton (Kelley Drye & Warren LLP).

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