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European Commission Gets Split Decision In Beer And Acrylic Glass Antitrust Appeals

Posted  09/28/11
The European Commission has received a split decision in two appeals of multi-million euro fines it imposed for anticompetitive conduct in beer and acrylic glass markets. The European General Court has annulled the European Commission’s 31.66 million euro antitrust fine assessed against beer brewer Koninklijke Grolsch NV.  In case T-234/07, Koninklijke Grolsch v. Commission, the European General Court focused on...

Federal Judge Red Lights Truck Rental Price-Fixing Case Against U-Haul

Posted  09/6/11
A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a putative class action that claimed that U-Haul International Inc. and its parent company, Amerco engaged in a truck rental price-fixing scheme. The plaintiff in Liu v. Amerco alleged that U-Haul and Amerco engaged in an unfair or deceptive act in violation of Massachusetts law, and caused prices for truck rentals to rise, by inviting competitor Avis Budget Group Inc....

AstraZeneca Settles Idaho Price Inflation Lawsuit for $2.5 Million

Posted  09/1/11
After more than four years of litigation, AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle State of Idaho v. Alpharma USPD Inc. et al., an action brought by the Idaho attorney general alleging that the pharmaceutical company violated the Idaho Consumer Protection Act by inflating the average wholesale price of its drugs. The Idaho attorney general brought the lawsuit against various pharmaceutical companies,...

District Court Denies Snap Judgment In Fasteners Class Action

Posted  08/31/11
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a motion in the In re Fasteners Antitrust Litigation class action to dismiss antitrust claims alleging that YKK and other fastener manufacturers engaged in price fixing. Defendants sought dismissal of the claims on grounds of statute of limitations and lack of evidence. The class action was filed in May 2010, by apparel manufacturers who...

Class Action Claims E-Book Price Fixing Conspiracy By Apple And Publishers

Posted  08/17/11
A class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Apple and five major publishers engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy to block competition from Amazon’s e-reader, the Kindle. The complaint in Petru et al. v. Apple, Inc. et al. alleges that prior to the launch of Apple’s iPad, Apple, HarperCollins, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette Book...

Court Tells Optical Disk Drive Plaintiffs To Refocus Antitrust Claims

Posted  08/10/11
Plaintiffs alleging a conspiracy among manufacturers of drives that play CDs and other optical discs are going to have to refocus their allegations in order to screen their claims of price-fixing in federal court. Judge Richard Seeborg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss each of the plaintiffs’ consolidated complaints, with...

Lackadaisical Discovery And Vague Allegations Cancel Flight Of Oil Helicopter Conspiracy Case

Posted  07/19/11
A combination of a failure to pursue discovery and vague allegations have led  Judge Legrome D. Davis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to grant summary judgment, dismissing price-fixing claims in Superior Offshore Int'l, Inc. v. Bristow Group Inc.. Plaintiff Superior Offshore is a purchaser of helicopter services to offshore oil and gas sites.  Defendants Era Helicopters, LLC, Era Group...

Huntsman Settles Polyurethane Price-Fixing Case

Posted  07/7/11
Huntsman International LLC, a subsidiary of the chemical giant Huntsman Corp., has agreed to pay $33 million to settle a class action suit alleging anticompetitive practices. The direct purchaser plaintiffs claim that five major chemical companies, BASF, Dow Chemical, Bayer, LyondellBasell, and Huntsman, colluded to fix the price of feedstock used to make polyurethane foam.  They point to repeated instances of...

Canadian Court Green Lights Worldwide Diamond Price-Fixing Case Against De Beers

Posted  06/15/11
A justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that an alleged worldwide diamond cartel led by rough diamond seller De Beers had sufficient anticompetitive impact on Canadian consumers to enable a price-fixing class action to survive a motion to dismiss at the pleading stage. The plaintiff alleges that De Beers and the other defendants sought to eliminate competition in the sale of gem grade diamonds in...

Dems Urge Feds To Investigate Surging Gas Prices

Posted  05/25/11
Skyrocketing gas prices may be getting an extra boost from anticompetitive conduct according to some Democratic legislators that are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible anticompetitive conduct by gasoline refineries. Last week, Democratic senators, including Senators Claire McCaskill, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked the FTC to investigate whether...
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