The Justice Department charged four major shipping container manufacturers and seven executives with a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and restrict output, alleging the scheme roughly doubled container prices during the pandemic.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division emphasized that intellectual property protections must balance rewarding innovators with enabling competition in the concentrated seed market, filing a statement of interest in a Delaware case involving Corteva...
The Justice Department filed a proposed settlement to resolve claims that a data-sharing company facilitated an anticompetitive information exchange among major meat processors.
WASHINGTON (LN) — The Justice Department argued Monday that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine should not protect 16 insurance companies from antitrust liability in a California class action alleging a group boycott of homeowners before the 2025 wildfires.
A former U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant has pleaded guilty to a nine-year conspiracy that the Justice Department says inflated information technology contracts for Pacific Air Forces installations by at least $37 million, with proceeds funneled to the...
The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust suit against New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Thursday, alleging the system violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act by imposing contract terms that prevent insurers from offering budget health plans that exclude...
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 23 launched a joint public inquiry on potential new guidance for collaborations among competitors, an effort aimed at replacing the 2000 Antitrust Guidelines for...
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a civil antitrust suit against The New York and Presbyterian Hospital on March 26, alleging that its contracts with payors violate Section...
A San Benito, Texas man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy that used extortion and price-fixing to seize control of a niche cross-border freight sector near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has sued New York City's largest and most powerful hospital system, alleging it uses its market power to lock insurers and employers into contracts that prevent New Yorkers from accessing cheaper healthcare options.
Alan Hayward James, a former active-duty Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, pleaded guilty to a multi-year conspiracy to rig bids and defraud the U.S. government, inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the U.S. Pacific Air Forces by...
A Florida fuel company owner who submitted falsified documents to U.S. warships and then concealed his identity when investigators closed in received a 60-month federal prison sentence.
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission launched a joint public inquiry regarding potential additional guidance on collaborations among competitors, building on the 2000 guidelines that were withdrawn in December 2024.