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Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury indicted Neeraj Jindal, the former owner of a therapist staffing company in north Texas, for his participation in a conspiracy to fix the wages of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants. This indictment is the first criminal prosecution of employer wage fixing since the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission issued guidance in 2016 warning employers of the threat of criminal enforcement for wage-fixing and no-poach agreements. And it should serve as a warning to all employers that criminal prosecution is a very real possibility for naked wage-fixing agreements.
As the parties prepare for oral argument before the Supreme Court on January 13 in
AMG Capital Management LLC et al. v. FTC, case number 19-508, amicus briefs in support of the Commission’s position have been filed this week, with most warning of dire consequences for consumers and competition if the case does not break the Commission’s way:
The National Consumer Law Center, UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice, Center for Consumer Law and Education, Housing Clinic of Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, and Professor Craig Cowie
“Absent a ‘clear and valid legislative command’ to the contrary, Congress does not impliedly impinge on the equitable powers of a court…Consumer redress through Section 13(b) actions, as envisioned by Congress and provided by the court, continues to protect American consumers and promote a fair marketplace. Stripping the courts of their equitable power to provide redress would create perverse mar
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Dish Network agreed to pay the U.S. government and four states, including Illinois, $210 million to settle a 2009 lawsuit alleging it engaged in millions of telemarketing violations.
District Judge Sue E. Myerscough of the Central District of Illinois in Springfield entered an order Dec. 4 enforcing the settlement. The parties settled only the monetary relief portion of the case. The injunctive relief Myerscough previously awarded “remains in place and unaffected by this settlement.”
Dish Network settled its claims with the U.S. for a $126 million civil penalty. Additionally, the defendant agreed to pay $13,041,000 to Illinois, $13,986,000 to North Carolina, $17,031,000 to Ohio and $39,942,000 to California’s Public Rights Law Enforcement Special Fund used to support the investigation and prosecution of matters within the authority of the Department of Justice’s Public Rights Division.
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