Megan Rahman

Nov 18, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Daniel Anziska |Megan Rahman |Kimberly Veklerov

Last week, the Supreme Court declined cert for the Fourth Circuit's Brewbaker decision, leaving undisturbed the ruling that heightens the burden on antitrust prosecutors when the target companies have a hybrid horizontal-vertical relationship. [1] The Fourth Circuit's decision diverges from other circuits, so companies should remain cautious when collaborating with competitors, regardless of the nature of their relationship. In United States v.

May 18, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Megan Rahman |Barbara Sicalides |A. Young

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently suffered another setback in its most recent effort to secure criminal convictions for labor-side violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. In perhaps the DOJ's most high-profile no-poach criminal case to date, the court granted the defendants' motion for a directed verdict and ended the prosecution at the close of the evidence and just before the case was to go to the jury.