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 informa...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday approved Walt Disney’s partial merger with 21st Century Fox, but said Disney must sell Fox’s regional sports networks as those, coupled with ESPN, could form a monopoly in sports broadcasting. Disney, which agreed to the DOJ’s stipulation, will...
Today the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice cleared the pending Disney transaction. This decision is a big step forward towards the completion of our Disney transaction and the creation of new “Fox.” The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a con...
In my first book, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (published by Cambridge University Press in 2003), I traced the rise of radical new ideas about the social causes of crime in modern industrial cities and the new institutions of law and liberal governance that th...
Between bouts of storytelling and teasing, the members of this very male gerontocracy receive a constant stream of visitors, seeking justice for wrongs committed within the community or mediation of family disputes. The délégué is informed before any significant undertaking in the village takes ...