March 22, 2021
The full Fourth Circuit won't reconsider a panel decision that upheld a first-of-its-kind divestiture order triggered by a private company's challenge to an acquisition carried out by a rival door maker.
March 05, 2021
A Fourth Circuit panel called the case "a poster child for divestiture," but on Thursday, in a rehearing bid, the company facing the first-ever divestiture order won by a private plaintiff called the spat "an extraordinary and extraordinarily disruptive remedy" sought four years too late.
February 18, 2021
The Fourth Circuit held Thursday that a district court was within its rights to issue a first-of-its-kind divestiture order after a private company challenged an acquisition carried out by a rival door maker.
May 29, 2020
The importance of private litigants to U.S. antitrust enforcement was a significant part of oral arguments on Friday, as the U.S. Department of Justice and a doormaker urged the Fourth Circuit not to upend a first-of-its-kind divestiture order against a rival company.
May 15, 2020
The Department of Justice will get a five-minute window to say its piece when two doormakers face off before the Fourth Circuit later this month in an appeal of one's successful challenge of the other's merger.
May 12, 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Fourth Circuit for a five-minute slot at an upcoming hearing to challenge arguments made by North Carolina doormaker Jeld-Wen in the manufacturer's appeal of a rival's successful merger challenge.
September 12, 2019
Interior door maker Steves and Sons told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court was right in forcing its competitor Jeld-Wen Inc. to sell off part of a Pennsylvania factory it has acquired in order to resolve antitrust concerns.
August 26, 2019
The Fourth Circuit shouldn't swallow a door parts manufacturer's argument that private parties aren't allowed to challenge a merger once it has been consummated, the U.S. Department of Justice warned.
August 19, 2019
Door part supplier Jeld-Wen can't bring trade secret claims against a rival in Texas state court, a Virginia federal judge has ruled, finding the allegations have already been hashed out in his own court amid the drawn-out antitrust battle waged by Jeld-Wen's competitor.