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

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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

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

First DOJ Criminal Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Trials End in Acquittals

In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that it would criminally prosecute no-poach and wage-fixing agreements for the first time. Indeed, the DOJ has backed this up by bringing a number of...more

A&O Shearman

Key Antitrust Enforcement Trends — 2019 Antitrust Annual Report

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Welcome to the 2019 Shearman & Sterling Antitrust Annual Report. Our seventh edition focuses on the contrasting use by regulators of antitrust laws with respect to the FANGs, and how antitrust is being enforced in the U.S....more

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

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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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2016 Global Cartel Enforcement Report

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Authorities launched new criminal probes, obtained guilty pleas from companies and executives and imposed hefty fines as aggressive enforcement continued. Several significant developments occurred in cartel enforcement...more

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