Items Tagged with 'Justice Department'

The Supreme Court appeared open Wednesday to the idea of dumping, or at least trimming the scope of a 40-year-old legal doctrine that says judges should defer to “reasonable” agency interpretations of statutes in cases where Congress has not been clear enough.

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have finalized a new set of merger guidelines that lay out the framework the two agencies will use when investigating future mergers. 

The nation's fifth largest poultry processor has agreed to stop penalizing chicken farmers who exit their contracts to work for other companies, in a proposed consent decree with the Justice Department.

The Justice Department is seeking to shut down the operations of Agri Stats, alleging it has violated antitrust law by aggregating and sharing a wide range of pricing and other information with major chicken, pork and turkey companies.

Food manufacturer Kerry Inc. has pleaded guilty to a charge that it made a popular Kellogg's breakfast cereal in “insanitary conditions,” leading to a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 100 people in 2018.

A federal judge has sentenced two farm labor contractors to time in prison and another to eight months of home detention for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized more than a dozen Mexican H-2A workers.

Three poultry companies have agreed to pay $84.8 million to compensate processing plant workers under agreements with the Justice Department that would allow a major acquisition to go forward and could spell trouble for the industry’s “tournament system” of paying growers.