Employment Litigation, Antitrust Litigation

Burger King Employees Persist After Renewed Motion to Dismiss

Zelle LLP on 7/7/2025

Last month, Judge Jose E. Martinez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied the Burger King Defendants’ (“Burger King”) motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging that its “No-Hire”...more

“No-poach” class actions: Fourth Circuit reinstates naval engineers’ Sherman Act claims against shipbuilders

Kilpatrick on 6/30/2025

Takeaway: We have written about “no-poach” class actions, in which employers allegedly conspire not to recruit or hire each other’s employees with the intent of driving down wages. See Eleventh Circuit reinstates no-hire...more

District Court Denies Burger King’s Motion to Dismiss Putative Class Action Related to No-Poaching Provisions in Franchise...

Bilzin Sumberg on 6/10/2025

Arrington v. Burger King Worldwide, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-24128 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 5, 2018) – In October 2018, Jarvis Arrington, a former employee at a Burger King franchisee in Illinois, filed a class action complaint against...more

Fourth Circuit Decides “Non-Ink-to-Paper” Agreement Among Defense Contractors May Toll Statute of Limitations for Antitrust Claims

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/23/2025

On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit published a significant decision in Scharpf v. General Dynamics Corp., reviving a dormant class action lawsuit against a group of the country’s largest naval...more

Film Room: House hearing update

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 4/10/2025

In this week’s Film Room, we cut through the noise and draw your attention to key takeaways from the House hearing, including a preview of what’s next. We also bring you up to speed on an important update in the Schroeder...more

Seventh Circuit Revives McDonald's Employee No-Poach Litigation

Troutman Pepper Locke on 10/4/2023

In June of 2022, McDonald’s obtained a judgment on the pleadings, ending antitrust litigation challenging the legality of the no-hire restraints it previously included in its franchise agreements. More than a year later, the...more

Paris Litigation Gazette - Issue 1

BCLP on 1/20/2023

Welcome to the first edition of the Litigation Gazette. Each quarter, BCLP's Paris team keep you informed of the main litigation news in competition law, commercial litigation, labor law, IP/IT/Data and compliance. In this...more

[Webinar] Trial Team Reflections on Win in First-Ever Criminal No-Poach Case: DOJ May Have Lost, But The Game Is Not Over - May...

McDermott Will & Schulte on 4/22/2022

In July 2021, the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division brought its first-ever criminal no-poach market allocation case. The Antitrust Division indicted DaVita, Inc. and its former CEO Kent Thiry on three counts...more

Antitrust Regulation And The Labor Market

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/24/2021

Employment-related antitrust regulation is intensifying amid a volatile labor market so Mark Henriques asked David Hamilton and Sarah Motley Stone, two of Womble Bond Dickinson's brightest minds on this subject, to share some...more

Attacking Class Certification on a Motion to Dismiss? A Recent Decision Says There is a Way - Insights - Proskauer Rose LLP

Proskauer Rose LLP on 7/10/2019

Antitrust class action counsel are in the business of extracting cash from defendants in the form of settlements that are, in effect, a tax on every transaction in the market covered by the case. The bigger the market, the...more

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