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Leah Samuel

Leah Samuel is a student at Yale Law School. During law school, she has worked in antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Justice Department and the New York Attorney General’s Office, as well as health care and antitrust at the California Office of the Attorney General. Prior to law school, she worked in state-level criminal justice policy through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative.

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UMC Rulemaking After Magnuson-Moss: A Textualist Approach

Leah Samuel Apr 27, 2022

Introduction The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ability to conduct substantive rulemaking under both its “unfair methods of competition” (UMC) and “unfair and deceptive practices” (UDAP) mandates was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1973’s National Petroleum Refiners Association v. FTC. Nonetheless, the FTC has seldom exercised this authority with ... UMC Rulemaking After Magnuson-Moss: A Textualist Approach

Administrative LawAntitrustClayton Act