WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: In a consent decree entered today by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Mt. Hope Auction Co. agreed to monitoring and future restrictions to prevent it from violating the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) through future auctions of exotic or other AWA-regulated animals. In September, the United States filed a complaint against Mt. Hope Auction, alleging that it was placing animals in serious  more