The Justice Department and the American Bar Association agreed Friday that the nation's largest group of lawyers had violated a 1996 court order that settled an antitrust suit. The ABA also agreed to pay $185,000 to reimburse the government for its costs in investigating what the DOJ called a case of civil contempt of court. The case involved the misuse of the ABA's accreditation process by law school personnel with an economic interest in the outcome of accreditation reviews.
June 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A group of lawyers violating the law? Say it ain’t so!
The Justice Department and the American Bar Association agreed Friday that the association, the nation’s largest group of lawyers, had indeed violated a 1996 court order that settled a government antitrust suit against the ABA.
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