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Google-Yahoo Deal Subject of Antitrust Probe: Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO to share some advertising revenue, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Investigators are planning to demand documents not only ...
Google-Yahoo Deal Subject of Antitrust Probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO to share some advertising revenue, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Investigators are planning to demand documents not only from Google and...
Combating Procurement Fraud
At this critical time when our national defense and homeland security resources are most precious, criminals who cheat the government must be identified, stopped and punished. The sheer size and complexity of procurement operations may embolden some criminals. It is imperative to take action to prevent, deter, and prosecute those...
The Civil Enforcement Initiative : A Chapter 13 Perspective
"This article provides a look at the Program’s civil enforcement activities in the Chapter 13 area and encourages participation and support of public. Several issues have emerged that present new or particularly significant challenges for civil enforcement in Chapter 13. These issues include debtor identification, serial filers, substantial abuse under...
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...
Keep on Truckin': DOJ Says Andersen Destroyed Tons of Evidence
The article asserts that neither Enron nor any of its employees have been brought up on criminal charges. The indictment alleges that, at the firm's direction, Andersen personnel engaged in the wholesale destruction of tons of paperwork and attempted to purge huge volumes of electronic data or information. Dozens of...
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...
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...
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8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Social Security claimants
Social Security claimants do not have a constitutional right to subpoena or cross-examine the doctors consulted by administrative law judges in disability hearings, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Wednesday's decision, by a unanimous panel, rejects dicta in an 18-year-old 8th Circuit decision that said...
Cities of Portland, Gresham apply for JAG funds
The City of Portland, Multnomah County and the City of Gresham this week applied for $269,422 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance. The BJA has released funds through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. The JAG program allows states...
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules right to cross-examine
Social Security claimants do not have a constitutional right to subpoena or cross-examine the doctors consulted by administrative law judges in disability hearings, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Wednesday's decision, by a unanimous panel, rejects dicta in an 18-year-old 8th Circuit decision that said...
Judge orders U.S. to put Gitmo first
WASHINGTON-- A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court. "The time has come to move these...
CREW Lawsuit: Court Orders White House Office of Administration to Preserve Documents Regarding Missing Emails
WASHINGTON -- Last evening, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly granted CREW's request for a stay pending appeal in CREW v. Office of Administration, a lawsuit seeking documents under the Freedom of Information Act FOIA regarding the White House's loss of millions of emails from White House servers. Although Judge Kollar-Kotelly...
Canada Takes Action to Prevent Crime in Nova Scotia Communities
Today the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, along with the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and the Honourable Cecil Clarke, Attorney General and Minister of Justice for Nova Scotia, announced an investment of $148,900 to support a crime...
U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: July 7, 2008
U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights Ineffective assistance of counsel BOTTOM LINE: Because defendant's counsel failed to investigate reasonably available mitigating evidence about defendant's mental impairment, their performance was constitutionally deficient, and the state MAR court's finding to the...
Profiling is worrisome
In response to the article "Profiling a Terror Tool?" (July 3), I hope the general populous is very concerned with the Justice Department's efforts to extend the role of the FBI from primarily a federal crime fighting agency to an intelligence collection agency. Even more worrisome is the new effort...
Profiling a terror tool?
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly...
US officials scrutinizing Google-Yahoo deal
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The US Department of Justice said Wednesday it is scrutinizing a proposed online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo to make certain it doesn't stifle competition. "We are looking at the competitive effects of the transaction and how it affects consumers," department spokeswoman Gina...
Reading First program could be on its last legs
WASHINGTON -- Is the federal government getting out of the reading business? The Senate Appropriations Committee voted last week to eliminate funding for Reading First, the groundbreaking but controversial Bush administration program that has given states $1 billion a year since 2002 to teach low-income elementary schoolers to...
US tax probe ratchets up pressure on Swiss bank UBS
WASHINGTON AFP — A US tax probe into bank accounts held by wealthy Americans with Swiss banking giant UBS heated up Tuesday, as a judge authorized investigators to seek financial information from the bank. The Justice Department said a US federal judge in Miami, Florida, had issued an...
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