U.S. government regulators sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of rival Juniper Networks on Thursday, saying the combination would eliminate competition, raise prices and reduce innovation.

The Justice Department files a complaint in California federal court that seeks to block the merger on antitrust grounds.

HPE announced plans to acquire Juniper last January. The latter company, one of the world’s top network equipment suppliers, makes switches and routers for data centers. It also competes in the WLAN market,

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) LGBTQ+ employee resource group, DOJ Pride, shut itself down this week after existing for three decades, citing “protection of all members” as the reason for its self-imposed closure.