Sentences with phrase «justice department lawsuit»

The settlement resolved a Justice Department lawsuit charging that the company violated federal fair housing law by discouraging blacks from living in nine apartment buildings in Mobile.
The publishers» distribution contracts with Apple guaranteed they would lower the retail price of any e-book in Apple's iBook store to match the lowest price offered by any other retailer, according to the Justice Department lawsuit.
The Justice Department lawsuit to block the proposed AT&T - Time Warner merger has an unexpected fan: former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
The county's argument seemed to contradict the county's own assurances, provided in 2011 under then - County Executive Chris Collins, that it would ensure certain training requirements were met in order to settle the Justice Department lawsuit.
The justice department lawsuit alleges a longstanding pattern and practice of sexual harassment from landlord Doug Waterbury, who owns about 50 rental properties in Oswego County and the Sterling Renaissance Festival, Sylvan Beach Amusement Park and Santa's Workshop in North Pole.
(Reuters)- A North Carolina judge ruled on Thursday that a Justice Department lawsuit against Bank of America Corp could move forward, allowing the complainant 30 days to file its amended petition.
In a separate case, a North Carolina judged okayed a Justice Department lawsuit against the company.
The Justice Department lawsuit will cite a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the «Supremacy Clause,» under which federal laws trump state laws.

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the deal in case an agreement can't be reached between the government and the companies.
Source code is sometimes inspected during lawsuits over intellectual property, and the Justice Department noted that Apple won permission to review some of rival Samsung's code in one such case.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice was reviewing the lawsuit, said Johnny Koremenos, spokesman for Attorney General Brad Schimel.
Reports emerged on Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is poised to file a civil lawsuit against the firm for selling over 100,000 vehicles that emit excess diesel emissions.
The U.S. Justice Department has approached 18 state attorneys general to try to win their support for an antitrust lawsuit to block pay TV and wireless powerhouse AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy media and entertainment company Time Warner Inc, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block that merger.
The lawsuit, to be filed sometime late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, will take aim at three state laws passed last year that the Justice Department contends violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution.
As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.
The Justice Department's planned lawsuit against California will target three state laws, senior Justice Department officials said on Tuesday in a press briefing.
CNBC's David Faber reports on the Department of Justice filing a lawsuit against the AT&T / Time Warner merger.
Jonathan Chaplin, New Street Research, and Tom Eagan, Telsey Advisory Group, discusses the Department of Justice's lawsuit to stop the AT&T - Time Warner merger and how it could impact other mergers in the media space.
Using a barrage of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, TRAC has been able to gather data buried in the Justice Department's own computer files (minus the individual case numbers that might be used to identify defendants).
The Department of Justice unveiled a lawsuit to block the $ 85 billion mega merger more than one year after it was announced.
The New York Times» Jim Stewart discusses the latest on the antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department against AT&T over their bid for Time Warner.
David Goodfriend, Goodfriend Government Affairs president, discusses whether AT&T can expedite its lawsuit against the Department of Justice for blocking the company's merger with Time Warner.
The search for Yoo's replacement may have already begun now that the U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Uber's software practices and Google's parent company Alphabet has filed a lawsuit over allegedly stolen self - driving car technology.
The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs (gs) has agreed to a list of «facts» in addition to paying $ 5.1 billion to settle a lawsuit related to its handling of mortgage - backed securities leading up to the 2007 financial crisis, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
This would include winning over the Justice Department, which has the power to file an antitrust lawsuit to block a merger, and mollifying the incoming President.
Yahoo aligned itself with Microsoft Corp. after a proposed partnership with Google in 2008 unraveled when the U.S. Justice Department threatened to file a lawsuit to block it.
The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today seeking to block the acquisition by Tribune Publishing Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, of Freedom Communications Inc., publisher of the Register in Orange County, California, and the Press - Enterprise in Riverside County, California.
Judge John D. Bates of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision today that found in favor of the Justice Department in its civil antitrust lawsuit to block health insurer Aetna Inc.'s acquisition of rival insurer Humana Inc..
Counsel to AT&T Inc. (T) and Time Warner Inc. (TWX) took aim at the economic projections underpinning the Department of Justice lawsuit to block their merger, in closing arguments on Monday afternoon.
The five lawsuits to block the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule continued to move forward in July in separate venues, but the Department of Justice strongly defended the rule in a Washington, D.C., federal district court challenging the suit filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities, or NAFA.
The lawsuit by Ms. Clifford adds weight to allegations in a separate legal complaint brought by Common Cause, a public interest group that has asked the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the $ 130,000 payment by Mr. Cohen.
The bank faces several class - action lawsuits, as well as criminal investigations by the Department of Justice and the California Attorney General's Office.
The Justice Department could file a lawsuit as early as this month to challenge the deal, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
(Time Warner, a silent partner, has a 10 percent stake, which will go to AT&T if it prevails in the lawsuit brought by the Justice Department.)
AT&T had previously rejected such a divesture, something the Justice Department had asked for prior to filing the lawsuit.
The brief comes after the close of the trial over the lawsuit the Justice Department brought to stop the two companies from coming together in an $ 85 billion deal.
She will inherit a series of legal issues the ride - hail behemoth is continuing to grapple with: For instance, Uber is facing fresh lawsuits over its data breach earlier this year and dealt with a number of probes from the U.S. Department of Justice last year.
The U.S. Justice Department had just filed a 198 - page lawsuit against Barclays in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York replete with allegations of breathtaking securities fraud.
The lawsuit makes clear that the Justice Department has the emails to back up these charges.
How would you answer the question, «What effect will the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft have on the overall stock market?»
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit against digital payment processor Payza for allegedly operating an unlicensed money service business that processed more than $ 250 million in transactions.
In August, a lawsuit was initiated with the Department of Justice which attempted to block the two companies from joining forces...
The lawsuit was against the city of Ferguson, Wilson and former police Chief Tom Jackson because of Ferguson's «culture of hostility» against black people that led to the death of Brown — an accusation supported by the Department of Justice's findings.
In 1982, the U.S. Justice Department brought a lawsuit charging the Park District with shortchanging predominantly African - American and Hispanic neighborhoods by spending most of its resources on the North Side and the lakefront.
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit charging that North Carolina's bathroom law violates federal civil - rights law — a move that came hours after the state's officials filed their own suit saying the department was trying to rewrite national law by attacDepartment filed a lawsuit charging that North Carolina's bathroom law violates federal civil - rights law — a move that came hours after the state's officials filed their own suit saying the department was trying to rewrite national law by attacdepartment was trying to rewrite national law by attacking them.
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The city of Syracuse will join other cities, counties and national organizations in a legal brief that supports the city of Chicago's lawsuit challenging new regulations by the Justice Department that target sanctuary cities, Mayor Stephanie Miner's office announced.
California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so - called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general office said.
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