Antitrust and Trade Regulation
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Antitrust and Trade Regulation Articles
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Private equity houses must take an active interest in ensuring that antitrust compliance systems are rigorously implemented by their portfolio companies. -
No hire agreements have come under scrutiny because of their effect on individual employees, who are essentially bound ‚ —or at least greatly affected ‚ —by a contract to which they were never a party and which they may not have even known existed. -
The Federal Trade Commission (the "Commission") has taken the position that employers who utilize the services of o. -
Effective September 1, 1998, the holder of an unsatisfied judgment in New Jersey will be permitted . -
Massachusetts v. Bull HN Information Systems, No. Civ. 97-11326NG, 1998 WL 470406 (D. Mass. Aug. 7, 1998). . -
Employers often use outside agencies to obtain information on job applicants or current employees. While such info. -
Employers can take some comfort in the fact that the New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont and Wisconsin Supreme Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a Connecticut Superior Court have emphatically affirmed the right of employers to terminate employees for refusing to sign a non-compete agreements. Each of these courts have reasoned that the essence of an at-will relationship is the right to fire an employee for any reason, including for refusal to sign a non-compete. -
Labels are not always a good tool for handicapping litigation. The Chicago School is a major school of thought in contemporary antitrust law. Its central premise is that antitrust laws serve only to facilitate market efficiency. Under this theory, judicial intervention is inappropriate (and likely to be counterproductive) where the goal is not efficiency or the conduct being challenged is (at least theoretically) uneconomic. -
Congress passed the following two Acts in anticipation of the potential for litigation . -
This article reviews recent case law relating to the enforcement of restrictive covenants and provides several observations that an employer should observe in drafting a covenant not to compete.