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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...
Antitrust Experts Say Yahoo-Google Deal Faces Scrutiny
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO face intense U.S. Justice Department scrutiny of their deal to share some advertising revenue, and the heat will likely increase under a new administration, antitrust experts said. Google, with more than 60 percent of...
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...
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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Daniel Rubin: For disabled, 'a major step backward'
You might not want to slog through the 1,000 pages of regulations, cost estimates, commentaries and impact statements the government released last week in proposing revisions to the Americans With Disabilities Act. Let Steve Gold, the public-interest lawyer who forced Philadelphia to cut curbs into sidewalks, break it down for...
US police bust notorious Latino gang
WASHINGTON AFP — US officials on Tuesday cracked-down on the violent MS-13 gang, arresting 26 people for a range of crimes committed in three US states and the Central American nation of El Salvador. "Early this morning, federal, state, and local law enforcement officials here in North Carolina...
US to carry on military trials at Guantanamo despite ruling
WASHINGTON AFP — Hearings for terror suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo are going ahead despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed detainees have a right to challenge their detention in a civilian court. Legal experts had described the high court's decision as the death knell of...
Economists from CRA International Assist Antitrust Counsel for SABMiller in Joint Venture with Molson Coors
BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing management, economics, and financial consulting services, assisted antitrust counsel for SABMiller ("Miller") in connection with a proposed joint venture with Molson Coors Brewing Company ("Coors"). On June 5, 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice closed its...
Weston Benshoof Adds Assistant United States Attorney Michael Zweiback
Former Chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section to Lead Expansion of WB White-Collar Criminal Defense/Investigations and Intellectual Property Practices LOS ANGELES -- Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava and MacCuish LLP today announced that Assistant United States Attorney Michael Zweiback has joined the Firm's Los Angeles office...
Domestic violence focus of YWCA grant
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The YWCA of Topeka has opened satellite offices in Alma and Holton to serve victims of domestic violence, a YWCA official said Friday. The YWCA received a $497,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department's Office On...
Judge won't dismiss case against papers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. AP -- A federal judge has refused to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit against the owners of Charleston's two daily newspapers, saying that he needs to hear more from both sides in the dispute. U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr.'s ruling stems from the Daily...
Domestic violence focus of YWCA grant
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The YWCA of Topeka has opened satellite offices in Alma and Holton to serve victims of domestic violence, a YWCA official said Friday. The YWCA received a $497,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department's Office On...
FBI attacks mortgage fraud
A national effort to crack down on mortgage fraud schemes has snagged a pair of Utahns. The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI's Operation Malicious Mortgage program led to federal grand-jury indictments for Jerry C. Huff , 49, of Hurricane, and Bryan D. Conrad, 37, of Salt...
Swiss officials in US talks on UBS tax case: report
GENEVA AFP — Swiss officials have gone to Washington for talks on tax evasion after a former employee of Swiss banking giant UBS admitted conspiring to help US clients dodge millions of dollars in taxes, a report said Friday. The delegation from the finance and justice ministries will...
Mortgage fraud probe snares 406 suspects
WASHINGTON -- More than 400 mortgage fraud suspects allegedly linked to an estimated $1 billion in losses have been charged since March 1 as part of the Justice Department's mounting inquiry into the national home loan crisis, top federal officials said Thursday. Of the 406 people charged, nearly...
Axium Technologies, Inc. Awarded Projects for the Installation of New Digital Video Surveillance System for the City of Rosemead and Compton School District
Axium Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AXGI) ispleased to announce that it has been awarded the installation projects ofits patent pending products Tagger Trap and Maximum Software at the City ofRosemead and the Compton School District. The projects will help the cityand school district control the ever growing problem of graffiti throughoutlocal...
U.S. Department of Justice Representative to Provide Keynote at Ticket Summit 2008, the World's Largest Ticket Industry Conference
TicketNetwork.com, the leading source for theticket industry's most comprehensive inventory and host to Ticket Summit2008, the world's largest gathering of ticketing professionals, todayannounced that it has selected Avery W. Gardiner to provide the keynoteaddress at Ticket Summit 2008. Gardiner serves as Counsel to the AssistantAttorney General in the Antitrust Division...
US banker pleads guilty in European tax fraud plot
WASHINGTON AFP — An American manager working for a Swiss bank Thursday admitted conspiring to help US clients dodge millions of dollars in taxes by hiding assets in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, officials said. Bradley Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to conspiring with co-defendant Mario Staggl to hide some 200 million...
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