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21 Jan 2021, 9:06 am by Kristian Soltes
That is largely because its planned $5.3 billion merger with Visa fell apart earlier this month after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 6:59 am by Kristin Parker
On the last full day of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a statement of interest in litigation supporting the position that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act preempts legal claims relating to the administration or use of covered countermeasures with respect to a public health emergency and, therefore, makes such claims removable from state court. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:08 am by David Oxenford
In 2019, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice began a review of the court-administered antitrust consent decrees that have bound ASCAP and BMI since the 1940s. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:00 am by Josh Blackman
Accounting Oversight Bd. (2010), Chief Justice Roberts observed that "[t]he people do not vote for the 'Officers of the United States.'" Rather, "officers of the United States" are appointed exclusively pursuant to Article II, Section 2 procedures. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 2:20 pm by Howard Bashman
“Cooley’s Elizabeth Prelogar Will Return to DOJ Solicitor Office as Top Deputy; Elizabeth Prelogar, who served as an advisor on the Mueller team, is expected to step into her new Justice Department role Wednesday, according to sources close to the Biden transition team; She will serve as acting solicitor general until a new solicitor general is appointed and confirmed by the Senate”: Marcia Coyle and C. [read post]
Fifth, the FTC could refer more cases to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue civil penalties for rule violations and certain statutory violations that provide for civil penalties. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 3:30 am by Michael E Herz
In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions distributed Litigation Guidelines instructing civil litigators in the Department of Justice (DOJ) to oppose universal injunctions always and everywhere. [read post]
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had indicted 14 of the world’s highest-ranking members of the MS-13 gang, charging them with the following: conspiracy to provide and conceal material support to terrorists, conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, conspiracy to finance terrorism and narco-terrorism conspiracy in connection with the defendants’ leadership of the transnational criminal organization over the past… [read post]
16 Jan 2021, 4:21 pm by David Oxenford and Adam Sandler
After a multi-year review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees, Makan Delrahim, the outgoing head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, announced that the DOJ will not seek changes to the decrees. [read post]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) “did not effectively plan for … the impact that family unit adult prosecutions would have on children,” despite awareness from senior DOJ leadership that the program would lead to the separation of children, according to a report Thursday from the DOJ Office of the Inspector General reviewing the implementation of the DOJ’s controversial “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 1:43 pm by getnickadmin
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it had obtained more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2020. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 11:39 am by Janene Marasciullo
Department of Justice (DOJ) has made good on its 2016 threat, contained in its Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals (“Antitrust Guidance”) to bring criminal charges against people or corporations who enter into naked wage-fixing agreements or naked no-poach agreements. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 9:08 am by Sean Joyce, David Kris
On Jan. 15, the Justice Department Office of Inspector General announced that it “is initiating a review to examine the role and activity of [the Justice Department] and its components in preparing for and responding to the events at the U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 10:17 pm by Unknown
The United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, (DOJ) has recently released a statement concerning the potential anticompetitive impact of a patent pool involving universities concerning patents involving “autonomous vehicles, the “Internet of Things,” and “Big Data. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 4:40 pm by anne
In its annual report of recoveries in fraud and False Claims Act cases, the Department of Justice reported total recoveries of $2.2 billion for the fiscal year ending September 2020. [read post]