Press Releases
Press releases issued by the Antitrust Division from 1970 through 2008 are found in this section of the site.
To find releases published beginning in 2009, please visit the Antitrust Division Press Releases page.
1971 Press Releases
December
December 30, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Damage Suit Against Seven Major Manufacturers of Gypsum Building Products to Recover Overcharges to the Federal Government Resulting from Price-Fixing Conspiracy Among the Firms Between 1960 and 1968
December 29, 1971
Department of Justice FIled a Civil Antitrust Suit to Prevent the Acquisition of Glamorgan Pipe & Foundry Company by Amsted Industries Inc.
December 13, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of two Companies Operating Soybean Milling Plants by a Third Company in Illinois
December 1, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to Prohibit the Nation's Largest Commodity Exchange, The Chicago Board of Trade, from Fixing the Commission Rates and Brokerage Fees Charged by Brokers Trading Commodity Futures Contracts
November
November 24, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Suit to Block the Acquisition of First National Bank of Ferndale, by Seattle-First National Bank
November 16, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Contempt Petition Charging Associated Credit Bureaus, Inc. with Violating a 1933 Consent Decree Prohibiting it from Acting to Monopolize Credit Reporting Services
November 02, 1971
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Seeking to Prevent the Merger of Five Atlanta Area Banks into Two Subsidiaries of Citizens and Southern National Bank
October
October 22, 1971
Department of Justice Filed Suit to Block the Merger of Washington Trust Bank into National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Marine Bancorporation
October 01, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the 1969 Merger of Two Companies Engaged in Licensing Franchisees to Sell Swimming Pools
September
September 14, 1971
Department of Justice Challenged for the First Time the Merger of a Savings and Loan Association and a Commercial Bank
September 13, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Seeking to have General Cinema Corporation, Divest itself of 21 Indoor Motion Picture Theatres it Acquired
August
August 23, 1971
Department of Justice Filed Suit to Block Consolidation of the Connecticut National Bank and The First New Haven National Bank
July
July 19, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Injunction Suit Against a Texas Chemical Manufacturer to Halt Pollution of the Houston Ship Channel
July 14, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging Reynolds Metals Company, With Using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements With Customers and Suppliers in Violation of the Sherman Act
June
June 22, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging a National Bank with Entering into a Anticompetitive Arrangement to Lease a Night Banking Facility
May
May 26, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the 1969 Acquisition of Stanley Roberts, Inc. by Insilco Corp.
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging Aluminum Company of America with using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements with Customers and Suppliers in Violation of Sherman Act
May 25, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to prevent Washngton Bancshares, Inc., from Obtaining a Monopoly of Banking Services
May 24, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to Prevent the Merger of Peachtree Bank and Trust Company of Chamblee, with a Trust Company of Georgia
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging United Aircraft Corporation with Attempting to Monopolize Research and Development of Fuel Cells Used on Apollo Spacecraft Missions
May 21, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging that an Agreement Between the New York Times and the Chicago Daily News/Sun-Times to share a Single Wire and a Single Sales Force in the Operation of their News Services Violated the Sherman Act
May 20, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Seeking to have United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc., to Divest Itself of the Assets of Prudential Theater Corporation of Merrick Acquired in 1968
May 18, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to Require Leggett & Platt, Inc., to Divest itself of Two Bed Spring Manufacturers Which it Acquired in 1968 and 1969
May 14, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to Require Tany Corporation of Dallas, to Divest the Electronic Products Business Which it Acquired from Allied Radio Coprporation of Chicago
May 3, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging Webster Electric Company, Inc. with Conspiring with its Distributors to Allocate Territories for the Sale of the Company's Sound Equipment
April
April 28, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of Pyle-National Company by Harvey Hubbell, Incorporated
Department of Justice Filed a Suit to Block the Acquisition of the Exchange National Bank by First National Bancorporation, Inc
April 27, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of Schulz Tool and Manufacturing Company of San Gabriel, by Parker-Hannifin Corporation
March
March 11, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging General Adjustment Bureau, Inc., with Illegally Restraining Trade in the Business of Adjustment and Settlement of Property Damage Insurance Claims
February
February 26, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging National Steel Corporation, with Using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements with Suppliers and Customers in Violation of the Sherman Act
February 18, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of Stock in Two banks in DeKalb County, Georgia, by First National Bank of Atlanta, and Seeking to Block the Merger of the Banks
February 17, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging the Atlanta Real Estate Board with Fixing Commission Rates on the Sale of Property
January
January 27, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit to Prevent White Consolidated Industries, Inc. from Merging with White Motor Corporation
January 11, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging Kennecott Copper Corporation, with Using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements with Customers and Suppliers in Violation of Sherman Act
January 8, 1971
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging American Building Maintenance Industries Merger with Boston Maintenance Company and its Acquisition of the Janitorial Services Business of J.E. Benton Management Corporation
