USA v. Hee et al
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January 24, 2023
Deal Caps DOJ's 1st Win In Individual No Poach Criminal Case
The U.S. Department of Justice closed out its first successful prosecution of criminal charges in a labor-side antitrust case after a manager accused of suppressing the wages of nurses working in Las Vegas schools agreed to deferred prosecution and 180 hours of community service.
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December 21, 2022
Biggest Developments In Antitrust Conduct Cases In 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice suffered a string of stinging setbacks in criminal antitrust cases this year but also extracted guilty pleas in emerging areas of enforcement, while private antitrust parties saw key rulings on patent and class issues.
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October 27, 2022
DOJ Gets 1st 'No Poach' Guilty Plea With School Nurse Case
A health care staffing company pled guilty in Nevada federal court Thursday to charges over an alleged scheme to suppress the wages of nurses working in Las Vegas schools, marking the first successful prosecution of criminal charges in a labor-side antitrust case.
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October 17, 2022
Vegas Nurse Staffing Co. To Pay $134K In 'No Poach' Case
A Las Vegas staffing company agreed Monday to pay $134,000 as part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice in the government's first win in a criminal labor market antitrust case.
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September 09, 2022
Plea Details In Flux In Vegas School Nurse 'No Poach' Case
A Nevada federal judge delayed a staffing company's guilty plea in what would be the government's first win on a criminal labor market antitrust case after a dispute arose over how prosecutors described the impact of an alleged "no poach" agreement.
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September 02, 2022
DOJ Lining Up 1st 'No Poach' Win With Staffing Co. Plea
The government looks set to secure its first successful criminal prosecution of a labor-side antitrust violation, after a health care staffing company said it plans to plead guilty to charges over an alleged scheme to suppress the wages of nurses working in Las Vegas schools.
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June 27, 2022
No-Poach Case Nears Plea In Would-Be 1st DOJ Win
A health care staffing company and its former regional manager indicated Friday that they were nearing a Nevada federal court plea deal for allegedly scheming to suppress wages for Las Vegas school nurses, a resolution that would be the U.S. Department of Justice's first successful criminal prosecution of labor-side antitrust violations.
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May 12, 2022
Judge Disinclined To Toss School Nurse No-Poach Indictment
A Nevada federal judge said Thursday that he's unlikely to toss a U.S. Department of Justice criminal case accusing a health care staffing company and its former regional manager of scheming to suppress wages for Las Vegas school nurses, absent a change in Ninth Circuit law.
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February 08, 2022
DOJ Wants To Build On DaVita Win In No-Poach Cases
Fresh off a Colorado federal judge's refusal to toss criminal antitrust charges alleging that dialysis giant DaVita and its former CEO illegally colluded with competitors by agreeing not to recruit one another's employees, federal prosecutors are telling other courts that the decision bolsters criminal charges in other no-poach cases.
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January 19, 2022
School Nurse No-Poach Criminal Trial Moved To July
A Nevada federal court has pushed back the criminal trial scheduled to start next month in the U.S. Department of Justice case accusing a health care staffing company and its former regional manager of scheming to suppress wages for Las Vegas school nurses.