In their Antitrust Trade and Practice column, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's Neal R. Stoll and Shepard Goldfein write: The decision in 'EPIC' that the FTC's decision whether to enforce its consent order with Google is committed to agency discretion and is not subject to judicial review clarifies just another instance where the court will simply not impose its judgment upon an administrative agency. Absent legislative intervention, the proposition that without a "mandatory discretionary duty" to enforce a consent order, the judiciary's non-intervention policy will continue to limit judicial review of agency inaction for years to come.
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Third-Party Effort to Enforce Google Consent Order: an EPIC Failure
New York Law Journal
April 10, 2012
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