When a court considers a case whose outcome may affect consumers or competition, the FTC may file a “friend of the court” brief to provide information that can help the court make its decision in a way that protects consumers or promotes competition. To find a specific FTC brief, use the filters on this page.
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Federal Court
District of Delaware
The Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in the case of Sage Chemical, Inc. et al. v. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al. The...
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22-11734
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires furnishers of information to consumer reporting agencies to reasonably investigate disputes regarding the completeness or accuracy of the information furnished...
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The Federal Trade Commission joined with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Louis v. Bluegreen...
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Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Federal Trade Commission joined with the U.S. Department of Justice in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Deslandes v. McDonald’s USA, LLC...
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Deslanes v. McDonald's USA Amicus Brief
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1:21-cv-00691
Federal Court
District of Delaware
The Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in the case of Jazz Pharmaceuticals v. Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals. The Brief highlights the...
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The Federal Trade Commission joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the case of Ingram v. Experian...
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22-427
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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22-87
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The district court dismissed a complaint under the Fair Credit Reporting Act on the ground that the inaccurate information contained in the plaintiff’s credit report was a “legal” inaccuracy and not a...
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Amicus Brief
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21-7093
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Joint amicus brief of the United States and Federal Trade Commission in support of rail shipper plaintiffs. The brief urges affirmance of the district court decision that interpreted a provision of...
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21-2846
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Federal Trade Commission joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Board of the Federal Reserve in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court...
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21-1678
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and North Carolina supporting reversal. The brief addresses the district court’s erroneous application of Section 230 of...
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20-2402
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission supporting neither side and taking no position on the merits of the complaint. The brief addresses two legal errors committed by the district court in applying...
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20-2049
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Brief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission supporting the appellant and urging a reversal. The brief argues that the term “applicant” as used in the Equal...
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19-2573
Federal Court
Northern District of California
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission in support of neither party, stating the proposition that market definition is a tool to help assess the likelihood of anticompetitive harm from the particular...
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19-12227
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission supporting the district court’s ruling to dismiss plaintiff’s antitrust complaint on state-action grounds. Brief...
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19-11502
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission supporting the district court’s state-action ruling. Brief states that, if the Court addresses the active supervision...
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SU-2018-161-M.P.
Federal Court
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
The Department of Justice, joined by the Commission, advocated to the Rhode Island Supreme Court that the business of real estate closings should not be deemed the practice of law, and thus able to be...
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18-1994 (FLW) (TJB)
Federal Court
District of New Jersey
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission urging the District of New Jersey to reject argument that Hatch-Waxman patent infringement suits are categorically exempt from antitrust scrutiny as potential...
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18-1367
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
This amicus brief, filed jointly with the Department of Justice, addresses the scope of the Noerr-Pennington doctrine and argues that the doctrine does not exempt from antitrust scrutiny the unlawful...
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