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Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up – The Trump Administration’s Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Posture Takes Shape

As previously predicted, the new year and change of administration in the U.S. brought a series of notable developments in criminal antitrust enforcement. Recent actions indicate that the new antitrust leadership in the...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - April 2025 #2

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UFC has urged a Nevada federal court not to certify a class of fighters in the second antitrust lawsuit it is facing over allegedly suppressed wages, saying the class is legally defective because the plaintiffs who filed the...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - March 2025 #4

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Twelve current and former tennis professionals filed a proposed antitrust class action in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing the sport’s governing bodies of operating as a “cartel” that manipulates pay and rankings,...more

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Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats

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On August 5, 2024, District Judge Amit P. Mehta (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google violated §2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the internet search engine market....more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - June 2024 #3

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The U.S. Twirling Association and a coach must pay nearly $4.2 million to a baton twirler who was sexually assaulted as a minor during a sponsored international trip, a New York federal jury has found, saying the organization...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - March 2024 #2

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The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another blow to the NCAA’s deteriorating amateur business model....more

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Court Denies Dapper Labs’ Motion to Dismiss, Finding That NFTs May Be Securities

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On February 22, 2023, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss a putative class action brought by purchasers of a non-fungible token (NFT) against Dapper Labs, Inc....more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Trial Team Reflections on Win in First-Ever Criminal No-Poach Case: DOJ May Have Lost, But The Game Is Not Over - May...

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In July 2021, the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division brought its first-ever criminal no-poach market allocation case. The Antitrust Division indicted DaVita, Inc. and its former CEO Kent Thiry on three counts...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: DRAM and Whales

This week, the Ninth Circuit revisits the pleading standard for stating a plausible conspiracy claim under the Sherman Act and examines the proper remedy for instructional error in a suit for disgorgement under the Lanham...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Another Shot Across the Bows: EC Levies $32 Million Gun-Jumping Fine on Canon

As the time taken to secure merger control clearances for global transactions lengthens, the parties and their advisers may be tempted to explore alternative deal structures that might allow a transaction to close sooner than...more

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Cartel Snapshot - February 2019

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Q4 Update: Overview of Cartel Investigations - Although 2018 saw guilty pleas and new indictments in several ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, the year finished by continuing a downward trend in antitrust...more

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Federal Judge Declares the Rule of Reason Will Apply in Criminal Antitrust Case and Dismisses the Case as Barred Under the Statute...

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On August 28, a Utah federal judge held in United States v. Kemp & Associates, et al. that he will apply the rule of reason standard in a criminal prosecution against an heir-locator company for allegedly colluding with its...more

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Motorola and the Extraterritorial Application of US Antitrust Laws to Foreign Component Price Fixing Cartels

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Last month the Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal for two related antitrust cases involving an international price-fixing cartel. The cases come from different circuits, one was criminal and the other civil, but they...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Civil Antitrust Attorneys Receive Wire-Tap Evidence

The Canada Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that civil antitrust plaintiffs may receive wire-tap evidence obtained in the criminal investigation into an alleged price-fixing scheme by several large gas companies. During...more

King & Spalding

Stopping the DOJ at the Border? A New Defense to the Reach of Federal Extraterritorial Criminal Action

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In a one-day Department of Justice Antitrust Division takedown last September, nine international companies based outside the United States pled guilty to criminal antitrust violations and agreed to pay more than $740 million...more

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DOJ Secures First-Ever Successful Extradition on Antitrust Charge

On Friday, April 4, 2014, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Romano Pisciotti, an Italian national, was extradited from Germany for his alleged role in a marine hose...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Implications of DOJ’s Auto Parts Price-Fixing Enforcement Actions

BACKGROUND - In plea agreements filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on September 26, 2013, nine automobile parts manufacturers agreed to pay more than $740 million in criminal fines to resolve charges of...more

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Criminal Antitrust Enforcement: The Success Of The Leniency Program

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With all the attention paid to anti-corruption enforcement and compliance, it always amazes me how successful the Department of Justice criminal antitrust enforcement program has been and will continue to be. Starting in the...more

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