Items Tagged with 'Justice Department'

A Florida man pleaded guilty to conspiracy for his role in a scheme to produce and sell fraudulent renewable fuel credits, known as RINs.

President Donald Trump, who has frustrated cattle producers with his push to lower beef prices, has directed the Justice Department to investigate major meatpackers for possible price fixing and manipulation. Trump launched a similar investigation in 2020 that continued through the Joe Biden administration and may still be ongoing.

A federal judge has temporarily barred the federal government from conducting reductions in force while the government is shut down, according to unions suing the government over the RIFs. 

The Trump administration is vowing to protect American farmers from "high and volatile" costs of fertilizer, seed, equipment and other key inputs as growers grapple with a difficult agriculture economy.

The Justice Department is suing the state of California over egg price increases it claims are partially fueled by the state’s animal welfare standards.

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.