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Comment: US DOJ’s no-poach enforcement suffers major setback with judge acquitting six defendants mid-trial

By Michael Acton and Chris May
  • 28 Apr 2023 23:24
  • 29 Apr 2023 00:44
In a rare and painful development for the DOJ today, a federal judge in Connecticut acquitted six aerospace industry executives mid-trial on the grounds that no reasonable juror would have found them guilty.
While it’s far from the first time the DOJ has lost a no-poach trial, todays’ decision is

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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