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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...

On October 19, 2022, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a press release heralding the resignation of seven directors from ten companies’ boards of...

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division secured a guilty plea in an invitation-to-collude case, making good on the DOJ’s warning it would pursue criminal charges in certain...

On October 19, the DOJ Antitrust Division announced that seven directors have resigned from board positions in ten companies after the Division raised concerns that the directors' roles violated...

​​​​​​​Back in April 2022, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jonathan Kanter hinted very strongly that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be looking at...

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and...

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, agreeing with the Justice Department that the joining of two of the world’s biggest publishers could “lessen competition” for “top-selling books.” The ruling was a victory for the Biden administration’s tougher approach to proposed mergers, a break from decades of precedent…

US Department of Justice Antitrust Division DOJ made good on intention to revitalize criminal enforcement of Sherman Act Section 2 when president of a Montana paving and asphalt contractor pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to monopolize the market.

Penguin Random House quickly condemned the ruling, which it called "an unfortunate setback for readers and authors." In its statement Monday, the publisher said it would seek an expedited appeal.

A federal court's recent acceptance of a guilty plea in U.S. v. Zito marks the U.S. Department of Justice's first successful criminal prosecution under the Sherman Act’s anti-monopoly provision in decades, a major development for an agency that has shown a willingness to eschew historical precedent to expand its antitrust enforcement mandate, say Tiffany Rider and Daniel Oakes at Axinn.