Andrew Haddad

Sep 18, 2023 | jdsupra.com | William F. Cavanaugh |Andrew Haddad |Amy Vegari

The Seventh Circuit recently revived an antitrust challenge to a clause in McDonald’s franchise agreements barring franchises from poaching other franchises’ employees. (See our previous coverage of antitrust challenges to no-poach agreements, reported on: Feb. 9th, 2022; May 2nd, 2022; Sept. 22nd, 2022; Nov. 29th, 2022; Feb.

May 19, 2023 | jdsupra.com | William F. Cavanaugh |Andrew Haddad |Amy Vegari

Two labor-market criminal antitrust trials recently ended in acquittals, further demonstrating the challenges the United States has faced in this area (See our previous coverage of this prosecution trend, reported on: Feb. 9th, 2022; May 2nd, 2022; Sept. 22nd, 2022; Nov. 29th, 2022, and Feb. 14th, 2023). In United States v. Patel, a district judge granted the defendants’ motion for judgment of acquittal on charges of a no-poach agreement before the case went to the jury. And, in United States v.

Feb 16, 2023 | jdsupra.com | William F. Cavanaugh |Andrew Haddad |Amy Vegari

Two of the Department of Justice’s labor-market criminal antitrust prosecutions have seen interesting recent developments. (See our previous coverage of this prosecution trend, reported on: Feb. 9th; May 2nd; Sept. 22nd; and Nov. 29th.) In United States v.