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Dysart Willis Houchin & Hubbard Attorney Meredith Pace Elected Bar Secretary and Receives President’s Award
We are pleased to announce that Dysart Willis Houchin & Hubbard Associate Attorney, Meredith Pace, was elected Secretary of the Tenth Judicial District Bar and Wake County Bar Association, beginning January 2021. Ms. Pace was also a recipient of the Tenth Judicial...
Key Provision of DOJ’s Leniency Program Enacted Into Law
On October 1, 2020, the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act (ACPERA) became law, keeping intact the detrebling provision of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program, which recently ended under its own...
Information Exchange Between Competitors Can Lead to DOJ Scrutiny
As our next presidential election approaches, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division (Division), Criminal Enforcement Section, headed by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Powers and Director of Criminal Enforcement Marvin Price, indicated...
Caution: Responding to Antitrust CIDs can be Risky
On September 10, 2020, the Antitrust Division (Division) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the Division has implemented two uniform updates to its Civil Investigative Demand (CID) forms and deposition process. Although CIDs are used by the...
Mask-erade: What Your Business Needs to Know About Governor Cooper’s Executive Order Requiring Face Coverings
On June 24, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper ordered that all North Carolinians wear face coverings in public to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But it is businesses - not individuals - who are liable if rules are broken. Since June 24, the attorneys at...
DOJ’s Antitrust Division Announces Progress with its Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF)
Recently, the Antitrust Division issued a press release touting the opening of several criminal investigations across the United States involving the government procurement process: “Over a third of the Antitrust Division's open investigations relate to conduct...
Discriminatory Practices in Reopening North Carolina
Last Wednesday, May 20th, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced another step toward the State’s reopening plan and signed a new Executive Order easing restrictions on businesses such as restaurants, salons, pools, day cares, overnight camps, and tattoo parlors....
Ryan Willis Wins Second Consecutive Not Guilty Verdict in Federal Court
On Wednesday, founding Dysart Willis Houchin & Hubbard partner, Ryan Willis, won his second consecutive not guilty verdict in federal court. The client was originally indicted in the Eastern District of North Carolina for one count of attempted possession of a...
Going Public: What Information Could Your University Release About You?
On May 1, 2020, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), does not protect some students’ names and disciplinary records from release to the media. What does this mean for you? If you have been found...
Big Changes to the Title IX Regulations
Last week, Secretary DeVos and the Department of Education released the long-awaited final Title IX regulations. These new regulations are meant to restore due process protections in campus sexual misconduct proceedings and replace the Obama Administration’s April 4,...
Big Brother is Watching Companies for Anti-Competitive Conduct During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a recent joint statement by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Competition, the agencies announced that they will enforce the antitrust laws against those who seek to exploit the pandemic to...
Leniency or Compliance? It’s a Coin Toss!
For many years, the DOJ Antitrust Division believed its best tool for deterring and detecting antitrust violations, such as big rigging, price fixing, and market allocation, was to grant leniency to those companies (or individuals), who self-reported criminal...
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