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title: Can A Single FTC Commissioner Constitute A Quorum?
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# Can A Single FTC Commissioner Constitute A Quorum?

  April 20, 2018

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Partner [John Villafranco](/Our-People/John-E-Villafranco) co-authored the *Law360* article ​“Can A Single FTC Commissioner Constitute A Quorum?” The article discusses if the FTC can take formal action by a 1-0 vote and raises the question of when a commission ceases being a commission. In September 2005 the FTC acted to lower its quorum threshold and adopted a new quorum rule providing that “\[a\] majority of the members of the Commission in office and not recused from participating in a matter ... constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business in that matter.”\[7\] In doing so, however, the FTC declared that its ​“new rule, like its predecessor, protects against ​‘totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons.’” With this rule, it allows a single commissioner to cause the agency to take official action.

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