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• DOJ Ace: Google Dodged Monopoly Lawsuit By Three Hours

  Sam Gustin writes: Newsflash: The feds think Google has a monopoly over search advertising. (Ya' think?) So it's a good thing Google ditched its controversial ad partnership with Yahoo, because the search juggernaut was just three hours away from being sued by the Justice Department, according to the ace...

  News items 2008-12-04

  Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, Internet Search Advertising, Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sam Gustin, Corporate Law, Search, Business Structures, Security, Business Operations, Finance, The Technology Industry, Jennifer Lai

• DOJ Hound Wanted To Sink Teeth Into GOOG, YHOO Deal

  Looks like Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) gang weren't the only ones sad to see the search outsourcing deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) die. Sanford Litvack, a lawyer the Department of Justice hired specifically to examine the deal, was hungry for the chance to...

  News items 2008-12-04

  Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Companies, Google, Yahoo, Legal, Tameka Kee

• Media Roundup: Google-Yahoo Ad Deal a Bust, YouTube to Offer Feature Films, and More

  Department of Justice says no to Google-Yahoo ad search deal -- Google withdrew its proposal after the DoJ said it would file an antitrust lawsuit if the collaboration between the two search giants went forward. The arrangement would have "denied consumers the benefits of competition," the DoJ said. [Source: Wired]...

  Blog posts 2008-11-06

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Media, YouTube Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Magazine, Deals, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Karen Steen

• Google-Yahoo: DOJ Would Have Filed An Antitrust Lawsuit; Competition Concerns Trumped Anything Else

  So says the Department of Justice, in a statement: DOJ "informed the companies that it would file an antitrust lawsuit to block the implementation of the agreement. The Department said that, if implemented, the agreement between these two companies accounting for 90 percent or more of each relevant market...

  News items 2008-11-05

  Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit, Internet Search Advertising, Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Search, Business Operations, Rafat Ali, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Legal, Regulatory

• Antitrust “Market Power” And Intellectual Property: Why FTC And DOJ Action Is Necessary

  In 1989 and again in 1995, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives considered legislation that would have prohibited courts in antitrust cases from drawing a presumption of a relevant market, or of the existence of market power, based merely on the possession of a patent or copyright.1 In...

  White papers 2003-01-01

  Tags: Antitrust, Presumption, Research & Development, Business Operations, Intellectual Property, Corporate Law, FTC, U.S. Department Of Justice, Security

• Conglomerate Mergers And Range Effects: It’s A Long Way From Chicago To Brussels

  In the 1960s, the United States experienced a wave of conglomerate mergers, driven in part by overly restrictive antitrust policies toward horizontal and vertical mergers. In response, the U.S. antitrust agencies and courts developed a number of theories of competitive harm with colorful names like deep pockets, reciprocal dealing, and...

  White papers 2001-11-09

  Tags: Merger, Antitrust, Article, U.S. Department Of Justice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Security, Investment, Finance, Business Operations

• DoJ Broadens Music Probe

  This article summarizes about the music licensing on the internet. The US Department of Justice is digging deeper into the alleged anti-competitive licensing practices of the recording industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA, which led the legal crusade against music-swapping service, Napster. The antitrust division is...

  White papers 2001-10-22

  Tags: Antitrust Division, Music, U.S. Department Of Justice, RIAA, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations

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• Arctic Glacier Cooperates Fully With Related U.S. Department of Justice Investigation

  Arctic Glacier Income Fund (TSX: AG.UN) announced that its operating subsidiary, Arctic Glacier Inc., was notified today that the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice is investigating whether the Company has violated the False Claims Act by entering into allegedly anticompetitive agreements that may have affected sales...

  Articles 2008-11-26

• Legal Opinions - 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: November 24,

  Criminal Procedure Brady claim BOTTOM LINE: District court properly denied criminal defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus where a different result could not have obtained at trial if purported Brady evidence had been disclosed. CASE: Mosley v. Branker, US4th No....

  Articles 2008-11-24

• Presidential pardons can show system works

  As President Bush's term nears its end, rumors abound that he will grant a lot of final pardons. Hundreds of clemency applications have been filed with the Justice Department in the past year, a reflection of the popular belief that pardoning is an end-of-term phenomenon in which all presidents indulge....

  Articles 2008-11-23

• Black asks Bush for pardon

  'Cheeky' attempt unlikely to succeed, experts say Request puts spotlight on President's absolute power CONRAD BLACK, the disgraced peer and former press baron who was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison last year for pocketing illicit millions, has asked George Bush to use his presidential powers...

  Articles 2008-11-22

• Mukasey collapses during speech

  WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense former federal judge who took over the Justice Department after Alberto Gonzales resigned in disgrace, collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness. The 67-year-old Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where his condition was not...

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Research and Markets: Successful Clinical Integration Initiatives in Physician Organizations: How to Build a FTC Compliant Program Audio Conference

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f073ed/successful_clinica) has announced the addition of the "Successful Clinical Integration Initiatives in Physician Organizations: How to Build a FTC Compliant Program Audio Conference" report to their offering. The FTC and Department of Justice have described a clinically integrated network as one that...

  Articles 2008-11-21

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  LIMA, Peru -- Countries on both sides of the Pacific have reason to be very afraid of climate change. Rising sea levels could swamp coastal farms, higher temperatures could wipe out entire species and increasingly violent storms could exact a widening human and financial toll. But at...

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Napolitano: Arizonan no stranger to scandal

  WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's likely pick for Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, is no stranger to headline-making Washington scandals and controversies. Napolitano was a U.S. attorney in Phoenix, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, when the Justice Department decided against prosecuting Arizona Republican Sen....

  Articles 2008-11-21

• Daschle to replace Leavitt at HHS in Obama Cabinet

  WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president- elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capital's most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be...

  Articles 2008-11-20

• REALTORS®, Consumers Winners in Settlement With DOJ

  CHICAGO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal court in Chicago has approved the settlement agreement between the National Association of RealtorsR and the U.S. Department of Justice ending antitrust charges against RealtorsR. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/NARLOGO) "This is a great day for real estate and for consumers....

  Articles 2008-11-20

• Obama transition post could signal change for head of Maryland Dept.

  Gov. Martin O'Malley might soon be in the market for a new labor secretary. President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Thomas E. Perez, the current head of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, to head his transition committee for justice and civil rights issues -- a...

  Articles 2008-11-19

• Holder tops Obama's list for A.G.

  WASHINGTON -- Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday. Holder, a former...

  Articles 2008-11-19

• Big Fuel Helps IKeepSafe and the Department of Justice Launch 'Know Where They Go' Public Service Announcement Campaign

  Integrated, Multimedia Initiative Aims to Educate Parents About Internet Safety NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Fuel, the consumer engagement agency, today announced its work with IKeepSafe and The Department of Justice on a PSA public service announcement campaign to promote parental involvement in online safety....

  Articles 2008-11-17