DOJ: On Beef Packers, Anheuser-Busch, Delta-Northwest
November 25, 2008
Source: The New York Law Journal. Reprinted with permission.
In the waning months of the current administration, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced a wide variety of enforcement actions including: bringing a lawsuit to challenge the combination of two of the four largest domestic beef packers; requiring a divestiture in a foreign beer brewer's acquisition of the largest U.S. brewer; imposing one of the largest fines on this side of the Atlantic for a price-fixing cartel; and mounting an investigation that led to the abandonment of Yahoo! and Google's plans to collaborate in the sale of Internet search advertising.