Department of Justice
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Facebook for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers (Department of Justice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/03/2020 - 15:38DOJ Requires Divestiture In Order For Liberty Latin America To Acquire AT&T's Telecoms Operations In Puerto Rico and USVI (Department of Justice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 15:40
Justice Department Sues Monopolist Google For Violating Antitrust Laws
The Department of Justice — along with eleven state Attorneys General — filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to stop Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms.
The Justice Department Unveils Proposed Section 230 Legislation on Behalf of the Administration
On behalf of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The draft legislative text implements reforms that the Department of Justice deemed necessary in its June Recommendations and follows a yearlong review of the statute. The legislation also executes President Trump’s directive from the Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship.
District Court Shuts Down Telecom Carriers Who Facilitated Hundreds of Millions of Fraudulent Robocalls (Department of Justice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 12:46
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Announces Re-Organization of the Antitrust Division's Civil Enforcement Program
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is creating the Office of Decree Enforcement and Compliance and a Civil Conduct Task Force. Additionally, it will redistribute matters among its six civil sections in order to build expertise based on current trends in the economy.
Justice Department Brings Enforcement Action Against Centurylink
The Department of Justice announced that CenturyLink has agreed to settle allegations that CenturyLink violated the court-ordered Final Judgment designed to prevent anticompetitive effects arising from its acquisition of Level 3 Communications. Despite provisions in the Final Judgment barring CenturyLink from soliciting customers that switched to the buyer of the divestiture assets, CenturyLink failed to comply, initiating contact on over 70 occasions over more than a year with former Level 3 customers who elected to switch to the divestiture buyer in the Boise City-Nampa, Idaho MSA (Boise