Dismissal Of Claims Over Lunch Meat Fat Affirmed By 11th Circuit
ATLANTA - Dismissal of a putative class action alleging that companies misleadingly labeled the fat content of their lunch meats was affirmed Feb. 1 by the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which...
View ArticleJudge Finds Infringement By Former Owner Of Electrical Franchise
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Kansas franchise owner infringed on a franchisor by continuing to use the company's marks after termination of his agreement, a Kansas federal judge said Feb. 6 (Mr. Electric...
View ArticleMDL Created For Fuel Economy Competition Law Claims Against Hyundai And Kia
LOS ANGELES - The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Feb. 5 consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California 12 cases challenging Kia Motors America Inc. and...
View ArticleWisconsin Appeals Court Affirms $22M Drug-Pricing Judgment Against Pharmacia
MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin appeals court panel on Feb. 6 upheld a $22 million judgment against Pharmacia Corp. for reporting inflated average wholesale prices (AWPs) that resulted in the state...
View ArticleMichigan Federal Judge Dismisses As Untimely Antitrust Claims Related To Merger
DETROIT - Claims that a producer of oxidates monopolized the domestic market for oxidates following its purchase of a competitor's product line in violation of federal and state antitrust laws were...
View ArticleJustice Department, 5th E-Book Publisher Reach Deal On Price-Fixing Claims
NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Justice and electronic book publishers Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH and Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, doing business as Macmillan (collectively, Macmillan)...
View ArticleJudge Allows Claims Against Hair-Product Manufacturer
LOS ANGELES - Hair-product consumers may proceed on their California unfair competition law (UCL) unlawful-prong claims but have not adequately alleged affirmative misrepresentations by the...
View ArticleCourt Denies Rehearing; Reversal Of $203M Overdraft Suit Stands
SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 8 denied rehearing and en banc rehearing of a ruling reversing a $203 million jury award involving a bank's debit card transaction...
View ArticleJudge: Competition Law Claims Proceed Against Chase For Acquired Loan
SAN FRANCISCO - A man may pursue his California unfair competition law (UCL) claims against Chase Home Finance LLC for conduct associated with a loan it acquired after Washington Mutual Bank went into...
View Article9th Circuit Hears Competition Law Case Involving Ability To Deliver Benefits
SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 12 heard oral arguments over whether allegedly insignificant amounts of active ingredients in juices advertised as conveying health...
View ArticleJudge: Chinese Company Must Defend Conspiracy Claims Related To Vitamin C...
NEW YORK - In litigation alleging that Chinese corporations participated in an illegal cartel to fix prices and limit supply for exports of vitamin C to the United States, a defendant that claimed it...
View ArticleClaims By ATM Users, Operators Against Visa, MasterCard, Banks Over Fees...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Independent operators of automated teller machines (ATMs) and several ATM users who alleged that Visa and MasterCard violated federal antitrust law by establishing and enforcing a...
View ArticleJudge: Competition Law Claim Against Coca-Cola For Juice Labeling Preempted
LOS ANGELES - Pom Wonderful LLC's California unfair competition law (UCL) claim against Coca-Cola Co. for selling Pomegranate Blueberry Blend drink containing only 0.5 percent of those juices would...
View Article16 Banks Sued By Real Estate Mogul For Role In Portfolio Default
NEW YORK - Real estate mogul Sheldon H. Solow sued 16 banks and certain of their subsidiaries in New York federal court on Feb. 13, arguing that the banks manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate...
View ArticleMarijuana Collective, President Escape $2.63 Million In Competition Law...
LOS ANGELES - A trial judge improperly excluded a marijuana collective and its president's evidence regarding the business's losses, a California appeals court held Feb. 13 in reversing a pair of...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court: Hospital Merger Is Not Immune From Antitrust Scrutiny
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 19 ruled that the state-action doctrine does not immunize the merger between two Georgia hospitals from the Federal Trade Commission's challenge that...
View ArticleNonsignatories Cannot Enforce Arbitration Agreements, 8th Circuit Holds
ST. LOUIS - The doctrine of equitable estoppel does not bar retail grocers' antitrust lawsuit against wholesalers, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Feb. 13 in reversing a district...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Review Of 3rd Circuit's Application Of Filed-Rate Doctrine
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 19 declined a petition filed by Delaware homeowners seeking review of a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that their action seeking damages...
View ArticlePanel: Alleged California Conduct In Price-Fixing Case Permits State Claims
SAN FRANCISCO - An alleged price-fixing conspiracy launched at least in part from California offices alleges sufficient contacts with the state for unfair competition law (UCL) and other state law...
View Article2nd Circuit: Participant In Bid-Rigging Scheme Didn't Suffer Antitrust Injury
NEW YORK - An admitted past participant in an alleged bid-rigging scheme lacks antitrust standing to seek damages from alleged co-conspirators for losses arising from the termination of its contract...
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