The Justice Department charged four major shipping container manufacturers and seven executives with a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and restrict output, alleging the scheme roughly doubled container prices during the pandemic.
SAN FRANCISCO (LN) — The City of Fountain Valley has filed a class action complaint in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, accusing major fire apparatus manufacturers and dealers of anticompetitive conduct.
A federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of California ordered CMC Steel Fabricators to pay attorneys’ fees and cease wiping devices of departing employees, ruling the company failed to preserve text messages and laptop data relevant to an antitr...
The 9th Circuit enforced an arbitration agreement between independent pharmacies and CVS Health, rejecting claims that the deal was unconscionable, but affirmed a lower court’s refusal to enforce a delegation clause that would have forced arbitrators to dec...
A federal judge in Minnesota has granted preliminary approval to a settlement between Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs and Tyson Foods, resolving antitrust claims related to beef purchases from 2015 to early 2020.
A federal judge in Utah denied a preliminary injunction sought by 16 sports flooring distributors, ruling they failed to show they were likely to succeed on their breach-of-contract claims after canceling mandatory performance meetings.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division emphasized that intellectual property protections must balance rewarding innovators with enabling competition in the concentrated seed market, filing a statement of interest in a Delaware case involving Corteva an...
Sezzle’s antitrust lawsuit against Shopify survives a motion to dismiss, with a federal judge allowing claims that the e-commerce giant unlawfully monopolized the “buy now, pay later” aftermarket on its platform while dismissing a tying claim.
U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled Monday that the strong presumption of public access to judicial documents outweighs Compagnie De Saint-Gobain S.A.'s arguments for keeping settlement-related communications sealed in the In Re: Concrete and Cement Ad...
A data broker accused of helping chicken, pork, and turkey processors coordinate prices agreed to change how it distributes competitive information and make monetary payments to settling states.
A settlement with a data firm ends an alleged scheme in which meat processors used shared industry reports to coordinate prices, according to a coalition of states and the Justice Department.
The Justice Department filed a proposed settlement to resolve claims that a data-sharing company facilitated an anticompetitive information exchange among major meat processors.
A federal judge in Delaware allowed a rival sales intelligence platform to proceed with claims that ZoomInfo monopolized the market and engaged in a smear campaign.
The Supreme Court refused to pause a lower court’s contempt order against Apple, allowing the penalty to remain in effect while the company appeals in its antitrust dispute with Epic Games.
A federal judge in Minnesota granted preliminary approval of a class action settlement between indirect pork purchasers and two defendants in an antitrust lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe dismissed claims against two generic drug makers antitrust litigation while denying motions to dismiss for others, granting plaintiffs leave to amend.
WASHINGTON (LN) — The Justice Department argued Monday that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine should not protect 16 insurance companies from antitrust liability in a California class action alleging a group boycott of homeowners before the 2025 wildfires.
A Second Circuit panel affirmed that merchants using Square’s payment processing services are class members in the $5.7 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard, rejecting arguments that they are indirect purchasers barred.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta added five states to his antitrust lawsuit against the broadcast merger, filing an amended complaint after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the deal.
A law school applicant who paid $510 to process seven applications sued the nonprofit clearinghouse used by all 197 ABA-approved law schools, claiming it fixed prices and monopolized the application market.