The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division, recently withdrew three sets of guidelines that had been relied upon heavily by the healthcare industry: the 1993 Antitrust Enforcement Policy Statements Issued for...more
2/8/2023
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A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that an antitrust challenge to a “hiring restriction [that] prevented” plaintiff employees “from taking a better-paying position with a...more
7/6/2022
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The U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) announced several significant updates to its Leniency Policy on April 4, 2022. Under that policy, the first company or individual to report a criminal...more
The Antitrust Division (Division) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an update to its Civil Investigative Demand (CID) forms and its investigative deposition process on September 10. When conducting civil...more
9/15/2020
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Attorney General of North Carolina announced a settlement last week in their civil antitrust case against Atrium Health, the largest hospital system in the state of North Carolina....more
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced that it was seeking public comments on the continued viability of the Paramount Consent Decrees, which have regulated how motion pictures are...more
8/10/2018
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Following a six-week trial, federal Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently approved AT&T’s 85-billion-dollar acquisition of Time Warner Inc. AT&T Inc. (along with its subsidiary,...more
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a roundtable discussion on criminal antitrust compliance programs recently. Lawyers from corporate law departments and law firms, as well as from foreign...more