But when they do, they'll enjoy plenty of alternatives without any help from the world's least interesting lawyers who populate the Justice Department Antitrust Division.
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America's main antitrust regulator, the Department of Justice (DoJ), is rightly sceptical of the notion that collusion benefits consumers.
On the other hand, pressure from antitrust officials at the Department of Justice forced Nasdaq to open up its order-handling system to electronic brokerages.
No wonder that, in the current antitrust case, the Department of Justice is nervous about a settlement or a remedy that falls short of a break-up (an option that seems increasingly unlikely).
When Charles James was in charge of the antitrust division at the Department of Justice in 2004, he also criticized Kroes' predecessor, Mario Monti, when he made the original antitrust ruling against Microsoft.
Boeing led Dow components with a 3.4% gain, while American Express was the only member of the 30-stock index to finish in the red after the company said Monday it will fight an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission had antitrust worries about the deal, and the Justice Department had filed suit to block the transaction.
It backed down in March only after the Justice Department hinted at antitrust enforcement.
The deal will have to be reviewed by the FCC and either the FTC or the Justice Department's antitrust division.
Owner Marise Cipriani says she can't afford to run her lifts this year and has asked the Justice Department for an antitrust probe.
Today's charges are the result of a joint investigation by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division's San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco.
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But a collective agreement meant to set broad market conditions crosses antitrust lines, and the Department of Justice sued Apple and the five publishers in April of this year.
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The Justice Department's antitrust division was threatening to sue.
Anyone who follows technology knows about Boies' exploits as the lead trial attorney for the Justice Department in its antitrust case against Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people).
Visa and Mastercard s ettled an antitrust lawsuit by the Justice Department today by dropping rules that prohibited merchants from offering discounts and other goodies to customers who whip out lower-cost credit cards.
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Bloomberg says the company is considering an offer to divest a significantly larger portion of assets than it had initially expected to remedy Justice Department concerns over antitrust issues involved in the takeover.
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In May, Christine Varney, President Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department's antitrust division, repudiated the Bush administration report, squarely placing some blame for the country's economic problems on the Bush administration's laissez-faire regulatory policies.
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The first was the resignation last week of Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and the man who began the relentless legal pursuit of Microsoft that ended victoriously for the government in June, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called for the company to be broken in two.
Based on antitrust concerns emanating from the Justice Department, Blockbuster backed off from the deal.
And so on Tuesday evening, at the headquarters of Microsoft's Washington lobbyists, Gates met JOEL KLEIN, the department's top antitrust enforcer.
Such behavior would almost surely be illegal under U.S. antitrust laws, enforceable by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, or private lawsuits.
If the Justice Department prevails with its antitrust lawsuit, the decision might have unintended negative consequences for those who write, publish, sell and enjoy e-books.
The Justice Department is aggressively using antitrust actions to cow entrepreneurs.
Perhaps in response to reports that the U.S. Justice Department is eying possible antitrust practices among telecom companies, CTIA is also keen to highlight the industry's size and complexity.
If Apple is found to be liable, the company could face claims for damages in separate proceedings from a group of states that joined the Justice Department in the 2012 antitrust suit.
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She also served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
The Federal Trade Commission, which along with the Department of Justice enforces federal antitrust laws, settled with Google in January over similar issues.
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With the US Department of Justice already investigating antitrust concerns relating to the case, the other big dogs just couldn't restrain themselves from coming together for a united whinge.
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It took awhile to read the writing on the wall, but Macmillan has finally settled the antitrust lawsuit brought by the US Justice Department for the publisher's alleged e-book price fixing.
American Express is fighting the Department of Justice on an antitrust lawsuit that the government says is being brought to protect the consumer, but AmEx claims is contrary to the goal of preserving business competition.
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