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Kaufman & Canoles

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

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A New York federal judge has tossed several school district lawsuits seeking to void a state law banning the use of Native American team mascots and names, throwing out individual board members’ free speech claims but saying...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

DOJ Fails to Convict in No-Poach/Wage Fixing Case

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently suffered another setback in its most recent effort to secure criminal convictions for labor-side violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. Having finally secured a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

DOJ Loses Third Consecutive Antitrust Labor Trial

The Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its third jury trial in its mission to secure criminal convictions against companies and executives accused of labor-side antitrust violations on March 22, 2023, when a jury in Maine...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The DOJ Defeats Another Motion to Dismiss a No-Poach Criminal Indictment and Closes Out Another No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Case With...

Two of the Department of Justice’s labor-market criminal antitrust prosecutions have seen interesting recent developments. (See our previous coverage of this prosecution trend, reported on: Feb. 9th; May 2nd; Sept. 22nd; and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Competition authorities crackdown on employment markets: a new era for cartels

At the end of last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a guilty plea for wage fixing, resulting in its first criminal conviction with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter saying: “[t]oday’s guilty plea...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The DOJ Finally Secures Its First No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Conviction

Last month, the DOJ finally secured its first criminal conviction for a labor-market antitrust offense.  (Check here for our previous coverage of this prosecution trend.)  VDA OC LLC (“VDA”), a healthcare staffing company,...more

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