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Software Engineers Seek Court Approval Of $20 Million Antitrust Settlement With High-Tech Giants

Posted  10/4/13
Plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of software engineers employed by Silicon Valley giants are asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to certify a settlement class and to approve a $20 million settlement of antitrust claims reached with Intuit Inc., The Walt Disney Co.'s Pixar Animation Studios Inc., and Lucasfilm Ltd. If the settlement in In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust...

Wireless Companies Succeed In Routing Text Message Plaintiffs Into Arbitration

Posted  10/1/13
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent upholding of a contractual waiver of class arbitration prevents three messaging companies from escaping arbitration of their antitrust claims against a large group of wireless companies in the putative class action of In re: A2P SMS Antitrust Litigation. Plaintiffs Club Texting Inc., TextPower Inc. and...

UK Planning To Strengthen Competition Cops

Posted  09/26/13
The government of the United Kingdom is on proposals designed to strengthen and streamline the UK’s competition regime. The proposed reforms of British antitrust enforcement are contained in that the UK has released for public comment. The proposed measures are among the revisions being contemplated as part of an overhaul of both civil and criminal antitrust enforcement in...

Court Finds Beer Drinkers’ Antitrust Claims Against Anheuser-Busch InBev Are Flat

Posted  09/23/13
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s largest brewery, has convinced a federal judge in California challenging its acquisition of Grupo Modelo, the largest brewer in Mexico. The plaintiffs in Steven Edstrom et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV are a group of nine beer consumers in the United States who are asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

Ninth Circuit Rules IPod Consumer Class Action Is Out Of Tune And Out Of Court

Posted  09/17/13
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has of a proposed class action alleging Apple Inc. violated antitrust laws in promoting the iPod and its iTunes Music Store. The three-judge panel ruled that the monopolization claims of the plaintiff, consumer Stacie Somers, failed as a matter of law for several reasons. The court found that Somers could not seek review of the district...

Class Certification Fights Derail Rail Freight Antitrust Case As Sears And Whirlpool Cases Move To Next Cycle

Posted  09/13/13
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rejected a district court’s certification of an antitrust class action in , becoming the third U.S. Court of Appeals in recent months to grapple with whether, and to what extent, class action plaintiffs must show that damages can be measured on a classwide basis under the Supreme Court’s March 2013 decision in...

Chicago Prom Dress Boutique Will Have To Answer Claims Of Cut-Throat Tactics

Posted  09/9/13
Prom dress retailer Peaches Boutique will have to litigate charges that it engaged in cut-throat dress-selling tactics in the Chicago area now that a federal judge has decided that competitor Hannah’s Boutique has adequately pleaded antitrust claims in Hannah's Boutique Inc. v. Barbara Ann Surdej et al. Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied Peaches' motion to...

U.K. Competition Appeals Court Finds Reform Plan Less Than Appealing

Posted  08/30/13
The United Kingdom’s Competition Appeal Tribunal is that the British government’s plan to streamline competition appeals will actually reform the process for the better. The Tribunal expressed its doubts and criticisms in to the government’s plan for “Streamlining Regulatory and Competition Appeals,” which was published by the Department of Business Innovation...

Seventh Circuit Says Antitrust Plaintiffs Can’t Mix And Match Venue Rules To Sue Anywhere In The Nation

Posted  08/27/13
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit a broad interpretation of venue rules that would subject corporations to antitrust suit in any district court in the nation. A three-judge panel has affirmed the dismissal of the antitrust complaint in on the ground that the plaintiff, Illinois-based KM Enterprises Inc., could not sue Global...

Federal Judge Takes Scalpel To $200 Million Wound Closure Antitrust Suit

Posted  08/19/13
Kansas Federal Judge Richard D. Rogers has to claims of monopolization, predatory pricing and unjust enrichment in the sale of wound closure products – but given a clean bill of health to claims of tying, exclusive dealing and state-law restraint of trade – in Suture Express Inc. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al., a $200 million antitrust suit. Suture Express, a suture and endomechanical product...
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