The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to let the government resume its antitrust investigation into the National Association of Realtors, after a trial judge found a prior settlement between the influential industry group and U.S. investigators barred a new inquiry.
on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Justice Department argued that a lower court judge "brushed aside" the terms of the earlier settlement and issued an "extraordinary" decision blocking a subpoena for information from the country's largest trade association.
Mantill Williams, a spokesperson for the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors , in a statement on Monday called it "alarming that the DOJ would try to resume an investigation that the Department committed to closing more than two years ago."The real estate group sued the Justice Department in 2021 after it said it wasfrom the prior settlement to "permit a broader investigation of NAR's rules and conduct to proceed without restriction."U.S.
"Only when the agency yielded to those demands did the parties settle their dispute," Kelly wrote. He also said "the government must be held to the terms of its contracts." The phrase "has closed" does not mean that an investigation would "stay closed," the government said in its filing.
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