FTC Denied Discovery Conference In Facebook Antitrust Suit

Mealey's (May 17, 2021, 2:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON. D.C. — In a May 11 docket entry, a District of Columbia federal judge issued a minute order denying the Federal Trade Commission’s motion to compel a discovery conference with Facebook Inc., with the judge deeming the motion to be premature in light of “a number of serious challenges” that the social network has raised to the antitrust complaint against it in a pending motion to dismiss....