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.
1974 Press Releases
December
December 10, 1974
Department of Justice Filed Separate Civil Antitrust Suits Against Three National Television Networks
December 5, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Three Leading Transporters of Mobile Homes with Fixing Prices and Monopolizing their Business
November
November 25, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging 21 Major American Publishing Houses with Conspiring to Illegally Divide World Markets among Themselves for Sale of Books
November 20, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging American Telephone & Telegraph with Monopolizing Telecommunications Service and Equipment
November 19, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Real Estate Board of Rochester , N.Y., Inc with Fixing Fees for the Sale, Lease, and Management of Real Estate
August
August 30, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of Byron Jackson, Inc. by hughes Tool Co.
June
June 28, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Foote Mineral Company of Exton, Pennsylvania, and Metallgesellschaft, A. G. of Frankfurt, with Conspiring to Allocate Certain International Markets for Lithium Sales in Violation of Section 1 of Sherman Act
June 28, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of One Metal Bed Frame Manufacturer
June 27, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Continental Can Company, Inc. with Using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements with its Customers and Suppliers in Violation of the Sherman Act
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Grow Chemical Corporation, with Using Reciprocal Purchasing Arrangements with its Customers and Suppliers in Violation of the Sherman Act
June 13, 1974
Department of Justice Filed Two Civil Antitrust Suits Challenging the Acquisition of Two Michigan Banks by Michigan National Corporation
May
May 9, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging that Fee Schedules of the Oregon State Bar are Unreasonable Restraints of Trade
May 3, 1974
Department of Justice Filed a Criminal Contempt Petition and an Amended Civil Contempt Petition Charging two Texas Companies and their Chief Operating Official with Violating a 1969 Consent Judgment Prohibiting them from Supressing Competition
April
April 30, 1974
Department of Justice Asked for an Unspecified Amount in Damages Sustained by the United States as a Result of Alleged Antitrust Law Violations by Nine Steel Companies
April 19, 1974
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of an Idaho Grocery Wholesale Firm by an Idaho Retail Grocery Chain
April 17, 1974
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Charging the Copper Development Association, Inc., and 11 Copper Fabricating Companies with Entering into an Unlawful Agreement to Restrict the Assignment and Licensing
April 11, 1974
March
March 27, 1974
Department of Justice Filed an Antitrust Suit Charging Five Los Angeles Are trash-Hauling Trade Associations with Conspiring to Allocate Customers and to Rig Bids in Violation of Sherman Act
February
February 27, 1974
Department of Justice Filed a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging the Acquisition of Certain-teed Products Corporation, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, of a Fibreglass Insulation Manufacturing Plant from PPG Industries, Inc.
February 21, 1974
Department of Justice Filed Suit Challenging the Acquisitions by Mrs. Smith's Pie Company
