DOJ’s Antitrust Division to Intervene In UNC, Duke No-Poach Case

The Department of Justice’s antitrust division wants a say in a class action alleging that Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conspired to suppress medical school professors’ wages.

The DOJ said in a court notice that it expects to file a statement of interest — used to assert the government’s arguments without being a party to the lawsuit — before March 12.

The suit, filed in 2015 by a Duke University radiologist, claims that senior administrators and deans at Duke and UNC’s medical schools allegedly entered into a pact agreeing not to hire each other’s ...