May 19, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission asked the Fifth Circuit to put its appeal on hold in a case challenging the agency's effort to overhaul its premerger filing requirements, to give enforcers time to consider developing a new revision.
March 25, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice are not giving up on attempting to overhaul the "insufficient" half-century-old merger notification form after its replacement was just struck down by a Texas federal judge, with the agencies now seeking public comment as they mull "a new rulemaking process."
March 20, 2026
Merging companies are free to use the Federal Trade Commission's older, less onerous merger notice after the Fifth Circuit rejected a bid to keep the agency's overhaul of the filing requirements in place while enforcers appeal a case challenging the changes.
February 24, 2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce pressed the Fifth Circuit to let merging companies revert to their old notification form while the Federal Trade Commission challenges a lower court order scrapping its overhaul of reporting requirements, arguing the agency cannot save the new form.
February 19, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission's emergency motion to pause a Texas federal judge's ruling that threw out the agency's overhaul of premerger reporting requirements.
February 18, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has just until Thursday to obtain Fifth Circuit intervention after a Texas federal judge refused Wednesday to extend his seven-day pause on the order scrapping the agency's premerger reporting overhaul.