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Kaufman & Canoles

K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - July 2025

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A Raleigh basketball scout and life coach was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a COVID-19 fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said Monday....more

WilmerHale

The Future of Criminal Cartwright Act Prosecutions

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California Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Paula Blizzard recently announced that the California Attorney General’s Office (AGO) intends to “reinvigorat[e] criminal prosecutions” under California’s Cartwright Act, Cal. Bus....more

Fisher Phillips

6 Antitrust Compliance Steps Employers Should Consider After First-Ever Federal Criminal Prosecution in Wage Fixing Case

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A healthcare staffing firm in Nevada just pled guilty to conspiring with a competitor to fix wages for school nurses and agreeing not to solicit each other’s workers – the nation’s first-ever successful criminal prosecution...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: DRAM and Whales

This week, the Ninth Circuit revisits the pleading standard for stating a plausible conspiracy claim under the Sherman Act and examines the proper remedy for instructional error in a suit for disgorgement under the Lanham...more

Baker Donelson

DOJ Cracks Down on Alleged Wage Fixing and No Poach Agreements

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On January 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its indictment of four owners or managers of home health care agencies for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the rates paid to...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Staffing Company Criminally Indicted for Targeting School Nurses in Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Scheme

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced yesterday a criminal indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada charging a health care staffing company and its former manager of entering into and engaging in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

DOJ Brings First Criminal Challenges to Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Agreements

More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly released the Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals in 2016 (Antitrust Guidance), the DOJ has...more

Hogan Lovells

Air cargo defendant extradited to stand trial

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The Antitrust Division (Division) announced Monday that Maria Christina "Meta" Ullings, a Dutch national and former executive for Martinair Holland N.V., was extradited from Italy to the United States after being apprehended...more

Jones Day

DOJ Obtains Price-Fixing Guilty Plea

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Texas-based e-commerce company Zaappaaz, Inc.—doing business as WB Promotions, Inc., Wrist-Band.com, and Customlanyard.net—and its president both agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional...more

McDermott Will & Emery

DOJ Nabs Two More in Real Estate Bid Rigging Conspiracy

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Two real estate investors pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Georgia. The guilty pleas, entered on Monday, January 4, are the 11th...more

McGuireWoods LLP

European Competition Law Newsletter – October 2015

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On 14 September 2015, an individual (Nigel Snee) was sentenced by a UK court to six months of imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, for committing the criminal “cartel offence”. He was also ordered to do 120 hours of...more

Carlton Fields

Criminal Agreements In Antitrust Prosecutions: Through A Looking Glass

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From a criminal defendant’s perspective, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes an apt point of reference in assessing the law of conspiracy in criminal antitrust cases....more

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