Contact

Click here for a confidential contact or call:

1-212-350-2774
Page 51 of 63

Pacific Seafood Off The Hook In Fishermen Antitrust Litigation

Posted  04/19/12
Commercial fishing vessel owners and fishermen have settled a $520 million claim for damages against Pacific Seafood Group just two months after Judge Owen M. Panner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granted class certification in Whaley et al. v. Pacific Seafood Group et al. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendants, Pacific Seafood Group and Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc., fixed prices in buying fish,...

Indirect Purchasers’ Claims Undermined In Mineral Price-Fixing Litigation

Posted  04/17/12
Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has dismissed class action claims of price fixing brought by indirect purchasers against several magnesium oxide companies in the case of In re Magnesium Oxide Antitrust Litigation. The court also ruled, however, that the price fixing claims brought by the direct purchaser plaintiffs, Orangeburg Milling Company, Inc., Bar Ale,...

Second Circuit Authorizes Magazine Wholesaler To Rewrite Antitrust Claims

Posted  04/12/12
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived a magazine wholesaler’s claims of an antitrust conspiracy in the magazine industry and granted permission to that plaintiff to file an amended complaint in Anderson News, L.L.C. v. American Media, Inc. The Second Circuit reversed the decision of Judge Paul A. Crotty of the Southern District of New York that applied heightened pleading standards in...

High Cost Of Antitrust Experts Saves Amex Plaintiffs And Leads To Calls For Potential Reform

Posted  04/3/12
The enormous costs of expert fees in antitrust cases is proving to be both a silver lining for plaintiffs bound by class action waivers and a focal point for calls to reform the fee shifting provisions of U.S. antitrust law. As discussed in a recent article by Constantine Cannon attorneys, the high cost of antitrust experts has led the United Sates Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to hold a class action...

Sixth Circuit Saves Air Conditioner Manufacturer’s Claims From The Deep Freeze

Posted  03/30/12
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has revived the antitrust claims of Carrier Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of air conditioners, which is suing producers of copper tubing for allegedly participating in an international customer and market allocation scheme. The Sixth Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, which had dismissed the...

Sour Decision For Plaintiffs In Extra-Sweet Pineapple Litigation

Posted  03/16/12
A California state appellate court has upheld the denial of class certification in a case brought by consumers alleging that Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. monopolized the extra-sweet pineapple market in violation of California Unfair Competition Law. Del Monte was accused in Conroy v. Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. of attempting to obtain a patent for extra-sweet pineapple – despite knowing that pineapple variety...

Security Tag Plaintiffs Knock Down Specificity Challenge To Complaint

Posted  03/1/12
A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that the heightened pleading standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly does not require plaintiffs to specify lost profits or to name the market participants injured by allegedly anticompetitive distribution agreements for the electronic security tags that merchants use to protect their merchandise. Judge John Adams rejected Checkpoint Systems...

Court Rejects Organ Transplant Drug Maker’s Challenge To Monopolization Claims

Posted  02/24/12
Judge Ryan Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has denied the motion to dismiss filed in the consolidated class action of In re Prograf Antitrust Litigation by the defendant, organ transplant drug manufacturer Astellas Pharma US, Inc. Plaintiffs are direct purchasers of Prograf – a brand-name immunosuppressant drug that fights organ rejection following heart, kidney and liver...

Vitamin C Plaintiffs Ward Off Challenges To Class Rep Status

Posted  02/17/12
Class representatives and their counsel in the Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation have won another initial round in their suit alleging that Chinese vitamin C manufacturers conspired to fix prices and to limit the output of vitamin C exported to the United States. Federal Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York has rejected all but one of defendants’ arguments seeking disqualification of class...

Nation’s Largest Seafood Company On The Hook In Fisherman Antitrust Litigation

Posted  02/10/12
A federal judge in Oregon has certified a class of fishermen in an antitrust lawsuit against Pacific Seafood Group, the nation’s largest seafood company. The plaintiffs in Whaley et al. v. Pacific Seafood Group, et al. claim that defendants, Pacific Seafood and Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc., used market shares of 50 to 70 percent to monopolize the Dungeness crab, Oregon coldwater shrimp, groundfish, and whiting...
1 49 50 51 52 53 63