On Jan. 5, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-1 to propose a new rule under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act that would largely ban non-compete agreements between employers and employees. If passed, the...more
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Seventeen of U.S. News & World Report’s top 25 universities in the nation recently lost their bid to dismiss allegations of an antitrust conspiracy to suppress student financial aid awards. The ruling by the U.S....more
A key statutory provision underlying the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s leniency program has sunset as of midnight on June 22. ACPERA (Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act) was enacted in 2004 and...more
Last November, the Antitrust Division (Division) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the creation of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) to “deter, detect, and prosecute antitrust crimes and related schemes...more