Eric Holder, Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, and Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, were in Fort Collins, Colo., on Aug. 27 to conduct a workshop on competition issues in agriculture.

According to a one-count felony charge filed on July 16, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Denver, William T. Armstrong, former chief of the construction division of the Fort Carson Directorate of Contracting, made a false statement in connection with a matter involving the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, an agency within the executive branch of the United States.

The American Antitrust Institute believes that settlement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Intel Corporation will benefit competition and consumers worldwide.

Ranchers arrived at hotels, at campgrounds, anywhere they could find to sleep in Fort Collins last night in preparation for today’s meeting jointly held by the Departments of Justice and Agriculture to address competition--and, more precisely, the lack of it--in livestock industries.

The Texas district court that will hear Neon Enterprise Software's antitrust suit against IBM for monopolizing the mainframe market - an issue that has both the European Commission and the Justice Department investigating Big Blue - was looking over its calendar the other day and - lo and behold - sua sponte found an opening and moved the trial up nine months to next June 6.

The Justice Department said Friday that it has no more antitrust concerns about the deal that would combine United and Continental into the world's largest airline.

Hedge fund managers can go back to eating, drinking and sharing trading ideas now that sources say federal investigators have dropped an inquiry into whether a group of money-managers conspired at a so-called "idea dinner" to drive down the value of the euro.

Sutter's price for the knee scan was $1,271, payable by Logsdon and his insurer. Exactly the same MRI at one of the local imaging centers owned by Radiological Associates of Sacramento would have cost $696 -- 45 percent less.

European Union regulators are said to be co-operating with the US Federal Trade Commission in a bid to investigate Apple's decision to block Flash on iOS.

Over the past two years, U.S. antitrust agencies have challenged several mergers that fell well below the $63.4 million Hart-Scott-Rodino reporting threshold. While the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission always have had the power to challenge such transactions, the agencies have exercised that power more frequently in recent years.