ASCAP and BMI issued a joint statement on their meeting with the DOJ on June 28. “ASCAP and BMI met yesterday with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and heard its proposal regarding our respective consent decrees,” the statement reads. “We are both evaluating the informat...
There are possible changes coming to the Minneapolis Police Department after a scathing critique by federal investigators in the wake of George Floyd's murder. David Schuman explains what the Department of Justice consent decree means and what the people of Minneapolis can expect. ...
Department of Justice Opens Review of ASCAP and BMI Consent DecreesColbath, Bruce
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
Antitrust Alert: U.S. Department of Justice Rejects Modification of Music Licensing Consent DecreesJonesDay
The Justice Department under the first Trump administration curtailed the use of consent decrees, and the Republican was expected to again radically reshape the department’s priorities around civil rights.
In the last five years, the Justice Department has entered into consent decrees with nine local police departments, along with six out-of-court agreements. The 22 investigations it opened in the last five years are more than double the number it opened in the five years prior. The departments...
Department of Justice over its music licensing statutes. The suit is the result of the DoJ’s recent decision to not amend the consent decrees, which dictate the processes for song licensing, telling the two largest U.S. performing rights organizations, ASCAP and BMI, to allow for “full-...
It remains to be seen what will happen to attempts to reach such agreements between cities and the Justice Department once Trump returns to the White House. The Justice Department under the first Trump administration curtailed the use of consent decrees, and the Republican ...
Trump is not expected to continue those investigations or to pursue so-called consent decrees, which require federal oversight of police departments. A key early sign of the ideological shift could emerge in the federal government’s challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors...