Justice
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city’s election board agreed to permit…
A group of U.S. lawmakers have asked the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense (DoD) to investigate McKinsey’s failure to disclose its work with China’s government, saying that the consulting giant might face conflicts of interest that require reviewing. In letters dated Oct 17 but which were made…
Visa is in the antitrust crosshairs.The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Tuesday arguing that the payment processing giant illegally maintained a monopoly with anti-competitive behavior and imposed unfair costs on customers and merchants.”We allege that Visa has unlawfully amassed the power to extract fees that far exceed…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the country’s telecommunications regulator Anatel to shut down Elon Musk’s social media platform X after the billionaire failed to comply with an order to name a legal representative in Brazil. WHAT IS THE CONFLICT ABOUT? Justice Alexandre de Moraes…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed publicly disclosing another jaunt on billionaire and conservative megadonor Harlan Crow’s private jet, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon alleged in a letter on Monday. According to the letter, Thomas and his wife, Virginia Thomas, took a round-trip flight on Crow’s private jet from…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit have been hit with the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class action to piggyback on the government…
By Mike Spector, Chris Prentice and David Shepardson (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department next week will meet with lawyers for families of victims of two fatal Boeing (NYSE:) 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, as the government decides whether to move ahead with a…
In 2022, Tim Cook told someone to buy his Android-using mother an iPhone.Now, that comment is part of the Department of Justice’s case against Apple.It’s an example of Apple’s anti-competitive tactics, the DOJ alleges. A quip from CEO Tim Cook made it into the Department of Justice’s 88-page antitrust complaint against…
