Google Inc. is asking for an investigation to determine if the new head of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division should be recused from matters involving the company due to his past work for critics of the search giant.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in Delaware on Tuesday seeking to stop U.S. Sugar from acquiring Imperial Sugar Co., alleging the transaction "would leave an overwhelming majority of refined sugar sales across the Southeast in the hands of only two producers."
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to stop Penguin Random House's planned purchase of Simon & Schuster over concerns about the impact on high-profile authors and their work, rejecting the companies' contentions that the deal will help with competition against Amazon.
Atrium Health has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a patient's bid to overturn a Fourth Circuit decision protecting the health care system from a lawsuit over past policies that prevented insurers from steering patients to lower-cost providers.
The Federal Trade Commission's Republican members have blasted a recent policy move stepping up requirements for merger settlement parties and said their colleagues made the decision with the help of a former commissioner's "zombie vote."