December 8, 2015

Geoffrey Manne at Cato to Discuss the Federal Circuit’s Error in ClearCorrect

Kristian Stout

Tomorrow, Geoffrey Manne, Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics, will be a panelist at the Cato Institute’s Policy Forum, “The ITC and Digital Trade: The ClearCorrect Decision.”

Intellectual Property

September 25, 2015

Amicus Brief, Tennessee v. FCC, 6th Circuit

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

"This case is not about broadband deployment or competition, nor local autonomy. It is about the FCC’s claim of sweeping power and its essentially unchecked discretion to govern the Internet..."

Telecommunications

August 28, 2015

Suprema v. ITC: The Case for Chevron Deference

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

Recently, the en banc Federal Circuit decided in Suprema, Inc. v. ITC that the International Trade Commission could properly prevent the importation of articles that infringe under an indirect liability…

Intellectual Property

August 7, 2015

ICLE and leading academics file amicus brief urging the court to overturn the FCC’s illegal net neutrality order

Geoffrey A. Manne

Yesterday, the International Center for Law & Economics, together with Professor Gus Hurwitz, Nebraska College of Law, and nine other scholars of law and economics, filed an amicus brief in the DC Circuit…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 20, 2015

Amicus Brief, Howard Stirk Holdings, LLC. et al. v. FCC, D.C. Circuit

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

"'Capricious' is defined as 'given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.' That is just the word to describe the FCC’s decision in its 2014 Order to reverse a quarter century of agency practice by a vote of 3-to-2..."

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 1, 2015

The FTC's Misguided Notion of a “Common Law” of Data Security

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

"Commissioner Brill and a few academics have described the FTC’s data security settlements as developing a “common law” of data security. It is not readily apparent, however, that the over 50 independent complaints and settlement agreements between the FTC and particular companies amounts to what is traditionally understood as the common law.

Data Security & Privacy

September 29, 2014

Reply Comments, NC & TN Petitions Restricting Municipal Broadband

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"The International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE) and TechFreedom filed initial comments in these proceedings urging the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) not to preempt the state laws at issue in North Carolina and Tennessee..."

Telecommunications

August 29, 2014

Comments, NC & TN Petitions Restricting Municipal Broadband Networks

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka & Tom Struble

"On July 24th, 2014, the Electric Power Board (EPB) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, north Carolina, filed separate petitions with the Federal Communications Commission..."

Telecommunications

May 1, 2014

Bringing Antitrust’s Limits to the FTC’s Consumer Protection Authority

Geoffrey A. Manne

The FTC oversees nearly every company in America. It polices competition by enforcing the antitrust laws. It tries to protect consumers by punishing deception and practices it deems “unfair.”

Antitrust & Consumer Protection