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...courts' back burner until his presideny expires. In a brief filed today titled "Statement of Interest of the United States," the Department said presidents generally should not have to defend themselves against private suits based on pre-presidential acts. Whether that holds up in the case of DOJ's current boss, however, is still up to the courts...
...week, attacking on four fronts, probers, investigators and plain publicity hounds were sniffing around trying to ferret out some of the more noisome complaints: ¶ The Department of Justice attacked the National Football League's restriction on the telecasting of games. "If this suit is successful," warned a DOJ man, "action will be taken in the cases of all other sporting events." ¶ A congressional committee, picking up where it left off last summer, called more witnesses in its investigation of monopoly in baseball. Main targets: 1) the reserve clause, which binds a player to one club until...
...Washington, the Justice Department asked CAB to go slow on an order which would restrict (and perhaps drive out of business) most small nonscheduled lines. DOJ thought the little fellows did a lot of good. Said DOJ: "The subsidized . . . carriers have little incentive to curtail extravagances in the absence of competition...