{"id":239,"date":"2026-02-13T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=239"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:35:02","slug":"federal-court-vacates-ftcs-expanded-hart-scott-rodino-premerger-notification-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/02\/13\/federal-court-vacates-ftcs-expanded-hart-scott-rodino-premerger-notification-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Vacates FTC&#8217;s Expanded Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/seanpmcconnell.html\">Sean P. McConnell<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/katherinespeegle.html\">Katherine Speegle<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/saraholaughlinkulik.html\">Sarah O&#8217;Laughlin Kulik<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/brianpandya.html\">Brian H. Pandya<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 12, 2026, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/assets\/documents\/Opinion-Chamber-of-Commerce-v.-FTC-E.D.-Tex.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vacated<\/a>\u00a0the FTC\u2019s 2024 rule that substantially expanded premerger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act in\u00a0<em>Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al., v. Federal Trade Commission<\/em>. The decision is an important development for companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions, as it potentially invalidates requirements that have nearly tripled the time and expense associated with HSR filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/federal_court_vacates_ftcs_expanded_hart_scott_rodino_premerger_notification_requirements_0226.html\">Alert <\/a><\/em>on the Duane Morris LLP website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean P. McConnell,\u00a0Katherine Speegle,\u00a0Sarah O&#8217;Laughlin Kulik and\u00a0Brian H. Pandya On February 12, 2026, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas\u00a0vacated\u00a0the FTC\u2019s 2024 rule that substantially expanded premerger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act in\u00a0Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al., v. Federal Trade Commission. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/02\/13\/federal-court-vacates-ftcs-expanded-hart-scott-rodino-premerger-notification-requirements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal Court Vacates FTC&#8217;s Expanded Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Requirements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}