The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is expected to close next week. This deal is just pending approval from the Justice Department. Google will gain access to 17,000 additional patents through the acquisition, which is already being used to sue Apple for 2.25% of sales royalties.

Today the U.S. Justice Department approved Google’s $400 million acquisition of display advertising company AdMeld. The deal can proceed without any governmental conditions. Antitrust lawyers found that there are enough competitors that are similar to AdMeld.

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have started a large new round of domain name seizures as part of a global crackdown on piracy. Although the seizures are disputable, these types of governmental actions would be legitimized by the SOPA bill. This initiative is called “Operation In Our Sites.”

The U.S. Justice Department is working on passing a law that would make it illegal to use a false identity on Facebook and Match.com. The Justice Department statement is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow to Congress and it was discovered by CNET. The Justice Department wants to make it so that people can be prosecuted if they violate a website’s terms of service. The problem is that most people do not sit down and read hundreds of terms of service pages.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has talked to several smaller rivals including MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE:PCS) and Leap Wireless International, Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP) to sell spectrum and subscribers. This is in order to save AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to block AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) to merge with T-Mobile. AT&T proposed a $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The Justice Department believes that the acquisition of T-Mobile would “substantially lessen competition.” The complaint was filed in a federal court in Washington. “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market,” stated the U.S. in a filing.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has settled with the U.S. Justice Department for $500 million to avoid prosecution on charges that they knowingly accepted millions of dollars in illegal ads from online Canadian pharmacies. Google said that they banned the advertising of prescription drugs by Canadian pharmacies in the U.S. “some time ago,” but “it’s obvious with hindsight that we shouldn’t have allowed these ads on Google in the first place,” said the company.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is calling for new laws that would require wireless phone providers to store and collect information about customers. Deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division Jason Weinstein made the proposal at the U.S. Senate hearing that sprouted from concern over the way that Apple crowd-sources the collection WiFi and cell phone towers locations. Bud Tribble spoke at the meeting on behalf of Apple.