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US: Jackson Hewitt asks judge to dismiss no-poach suit

By  |  May 30, 2019

Jackson Hewitt has asked a federal judge in New Jersey to dismiss claims that agreements between the company and its franchisees not to poach each other’s workers violated federal antitrust law, saying brand parents and franchisees are “legally incapable” of an anticompetitive conspiracy.

The tax preparation company claimed that unlike competing businesses, franchisors and franchisees share economic interests and agreements between them do not have the anticompetitive effects prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act, in a motion filed on Tuesday, May 28.

Full Content: Reuters

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