Press Releases
Press releases issued by the Antitrust Division from 1976 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.
1985 Press Releases
November
November 22, 1985
Department of Justice Files a Civil Antitrust Suit Challenging Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc's. Acquisition of American Hospital Supply Corporation
September
September 13, 1985
Department of Justice Files a Civil Antitrust Suit to Recover Damages from Bekaert Steel Wire Corporation, and N.V. Bekaert S.A.
August
August 9, 1985
Department of Justice, at the Request of the Federal Trade Commission, Files Civil Suit Charging Weeks Petroleum Ltd., Bell Resources Ltd., and M. R. H. Holmes a Court
July
July 30, 1985
Department of Justice Reaches an Agreement with Allied Corporation to Settle an Antitrust Suit that the Department Intends to File Challenging Allied's Proposed Merger with The Signal Companies
July 11, 1985
Department of Justice Advises Industrial Asphalt of the Intention to File an Antitrust Suit Challenging the Formation of the Venture
March
March 6, 1985
Department of Justice Files a Civil Antitrust Suit Alleging that the October 1982 Acquisition by Cooper Industries, Inc. of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Aviation Lighting Equipment Business May Substantially Lessen Competition
January
January 22, 1985
Department of Justice Files Two Felony Informations Charging R.C. Cobb, Inc. and Consolidated Theatres, Inc. Conspiring to Eliminate Competition for Licenses to Show Films
