William Kovacic
american lawyer and academic
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This has a ripple effect that goes through the entire federal enforcement system because they showed they could do something that was very difficult,
- Kovacic saidLos Angeles Timeslatimes.com/california/story…
The judges in those other cases are now going read these two opinions by really capable and highly respected federal judges — Judge Mehta and Judge Brinkema — who have thought about these issues very carefully and came to the conclusion that a breakup wasn’t sensible,
- former FTC Chair William E. Kovacic told DFDPoliticopolitico.com/newsletters/digit…
I always had the sense that he and his people would listen to the industry,
- Kovacic saidPoliticopolitico.com/news/2026…
You can understand the anxiety that any one service provider has about how to get that attention,
- said KovacicPoliticopolitico.com/newsletters/digit…
The DOJ is going to say that Judge Boasberg in the FTC Meta case had a lot of information — do you [Netflix] have information to back up your intuition that these other [platforms] are important?”
- Kovacic told DFDPoliticopolitico.com/newsletters/digit…
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