A federal appeals court has vacated a defendant’s sentence of home confinement for violating the antitrust laws, finding it unreasonably lenient even under the now-advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.

The decision is one of the first, if not the first, where the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that a substantial deviation from the recommended guidelines sentence must be reversed because it was unreasonable.

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