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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Citation Number
23-410
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The Commission urges the Second Circuit to reverse the district court’s decision dismissing the private plaintiffs’ reverse-payment complaints for failure to state a claim and clarifies the...
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Brief of Amicus Curiae
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Citation Number
No. 21-16281
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In this amicus brief, the FTC argues that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) does not preempt state laws that are consistent with COPPA’s treatment of regulated activities. The...
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Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
District of Delaware
The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
22-11734
Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
1:21-cv-00691
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
District of Delaware
The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
22-427
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Citation Number
22-87
Â鶹´«Ã½ 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
(620.38 KB)
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Citation Number
21-7093
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Joint amicus brief of the United States and Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
21-2846
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Board of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Reserve in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court...
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Citation Number
21-1678
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Brief of the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
20-2402
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Brief of the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
20-2049
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Brief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Citation Number
19-2573
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
Northern District of California
Brief of the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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Date
Citation Number
19-12227
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission supporting the district court’s ruling to dismiss plaintiff’s antitrust complaint on state-action grounds. Brief...
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Citation Number
19-11502
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission supporting the district court’s state-action ruling. Brief states that, if the Court addresses the active supervision...
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Citation Number
SU-2018-161-M.P.
Â鶹´«Ã½ 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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