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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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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
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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Citation Number
17-204
Federal Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Brief of the United States (Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission), to reverse the court of appeals decision. This amicus brief argues that the appellate court misapplied the rule...
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Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae
(341.78 KB)
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17-368
Federal Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Brief of the United States (Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission), in support of the court of appeals decision. This amicus brief argues that a district court decision denying a...
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Citation Number
17-35640
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, urging the Ninth Circuit to reject application of the state action doctrine to this case because the "clear...
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Citation Number
16-2113
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission as amicus curiae , taking no position on the merits of the case, but explaining that the district court erroneously dismissed the complaint on Noerr-Pennington...
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Citation Number
15-961 and 15-962
Federal Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Brief For the United States (Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission) As Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents, Arguing That Respondents' United States District Court Complaints Adequately...
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Text of the Amicus Brief
(323.57 KB)
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Citation Number
15-2236
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission in support of a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc and urging the court to clarify or amend its September 28, 2016, decision in the case. The brief...
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Text of the Amicus Brief
(155.28 KB)
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Citation Number
16-50017
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as amici curiae , urging the Fifth Circuit to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction or, if the Court finds...
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Text of the Amicus Brief
(433.29 KB)
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Citation Number
16-7008
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in support of plaintiff-appellant. The brief argues that the district court erroneously concluded that the plaintiff...
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Text of the Amicus Brief
(155.58 KB)
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15-1184, 15-1185, 15-1186, 15-1187, 15-1274, 15-1323, 15-1342
Federal Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Supplemental Brief of Amicus Curiae Federal Trade Commission Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Motion For Leave To File Supplemental Brief, Filed to urge the Court of Appeals to reject defendants’...
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