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The Government Continues to Seek Criminal Sanctions in Cases Regarding Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Agreements - On Wednesday, March 22, a Maine federal jury acquitted four...

Almost two years after indicting Ryan Hee for allegedly conspiring to allocate staffing and fix the wages of nurses, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1), the...

An antitrust win involving a nurse staffing firms bid to suppress wages signals the federal justice systems interest in addressing tactics used to suppress competition, perhaps leading to future crackdowns.

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently secured its first criminal conviction for a labor-side violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act after...

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...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division secured its first win in a criminal enforcement of labor market antitrust violations on October 27, 2022, when nurse staffing company...

In another example of the Department of Labor (DOJ) pursuing criminal anti-trust cases against employers throughout the country, on October 27th, 2022, VDA OC, LLC (formerly Advantage...

Department of Justice Antitrust Division DOJ announced health care staffing company VDA OC LLC pleaded guilty to criminal antitrust charges for no-poach conspiracy for school nurse hiring arrangements. Nevada District Court fined them $62,000 and $72,000 restitution.

Compared to Q1 and Q2 of 2022, Q3 was relatively slow with respect to trade secret legislation and significant restrictive covenant awards and/or case law. Still,...

The DOJ’s efforts to prosecute alleged wage-fixing and employee non-solicitation agreements have continued to develop over the last few months. Most notably, the DOJ nearly secured its...