Public Workshop: Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to
Restrict Competition on the Internet
Agenda
- News Release (September 30, 2002)
- Schedule/List of Panelist/Transcript
- Public and Panelist Comments
Notice of Public Hearings
- FTC to Host Public Workshop to Explore Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to Restrict Competition on the Internet (July 17, 2002)
- Text of Federal Register Notice (July 2002)
- Workshop Fact Sheet
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding Possible "State Impediments To E-Commerce,"
Presented by Ted Cruz, Director of the Office of Policy Planning, Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee On Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (September 26, 2002).- Text of the Testimony
- News Release
Related FTC Competition Advocacy Comments:
- Comments of the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Bureau of Economics, and Northeast Regional Office (March 2004) to the Chairman, Assembly Agriculture Committee, Chairman, Senate Committee on Transportation and Deputy Majority Leader, New York Senate, Concerning New York Assembly bill 9560- A, and Senate bills 6060-A and 1192. (V040012)
- Text of the Staff Comments [PDF 67KB]
- Possible Anticompetitive Barriers to E-Commerce: Contact Lenses: A Report from the Staff of the Federal Trade Commission
- Text of the Staff Report
- FTC: E-commerce Lowers Prices, Increases Choices in Wine Market
Empirical Analysis Finds that Direct Shipping Improves Consumer Welfare;
States Have Less-Restrictive Means of Limiting Sales to Minors than an Outright Ban- Advocacy Comment [PDF 3.2MB]
- Advocacy Comment [PDF 3.2MB]
- Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Urge Georgia Bar Committee to Refrain from Eliminating Nonlawyer Competition for Real Estate Closing-related Business
Proposed Opinion to Adversely Affect Prices and Services for Georgia Consumers
- Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Provide Comments on American Bar Association Proposed Model State Law Defining the Practice of Law
- FTC/DOJ letter to ABA Task Force
- FTC/DOJ letter to ABA Task Force
- FTC Staff Provides Connecticut with Comments on the Sale of Contact Lenses by Out-of-State Sources
- Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Urge North Carolina State Bar to Allow Non-Lawyers to Compete for Closing Real Estate Deals
- Advocacy Comment [PDF 538KB]]
- Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Urge Rhode Island Legislature to Allow Non-lawyers To Perform Real Estate Closings
- Advocacy Comment [PDF 39KB]
Related FTC Proceeding
Related Congressional Hearing
- Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning "E-Commerce: The Case of Online Wine Sales and Direct Shipment,"
Presented by Todd Zywicki, Director, Office of Policy Planning, Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (October 30, 2003).- Text of the Commission Testimony
- Text of the Commission Testimony
- State Impediments to E-Commerce: Consumer Protection or Veiled Protectionism?