{"id":117,"date":"2023-11-17T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=117"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:48:21","slug":"whats-next-for-antitrust-enforcement-after-dojs-no-poach-prosecution-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2023\/11\/17\/whats-next-for-antitrust-enforcement-after-dojs-no-poach-prosecution-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Next for Antitrust Enforcement After DOJ&#8217;s No-Poach Prosecution Dismissed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to dismiss indictments in its last remaining criminal no-poach antitrust case,\u00a0<em>United States of America v. Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC, et al.<\/em>, No. 3:21-cr-00011-L (N.D. Tex. Nov. 15, 2023). The government\u2019s voluntary dismissal of the case\u2014the first criminal no-poach indictment brought by the DOJ in early 2021\u2014could signify the beginning and end of DOJ\u2019s quest to enforce no-poach agreements as\u00a0<em>per se<\/em>\u00a0violations of the Sherman Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/dojs_original_no_poach_prosecution_dismissed_whats_next_antitrust_enforcement_1123.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert\u00a0<\/em>on the Duane Morris website.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to dismiss indictments in its last remaining criminal no-poach antitrust case,\u00a0United States of America v. Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC, et al., No. 3:21-cr-00011-L (N.D. Tex. Nov. 15, 2023). The government\u2019s voluntary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2023\/11\/17\/whats-next-for-antitrust-enforcement-after-dojs-no-poach-prosecution-dismissed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s Next for Antitrust Enforcement After DOJ&#8217;s No-Poach Prosecution Dismissed?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,14,22,50,17],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-christopher-casey","tag-doj","tag-no-poach","tag-sean-mcconnell"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}