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Indirect Purchasers
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Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
En banc Sixth Circuit passes on antitrust indirect seller case
By Katherine von Schaumburg, Mary Walser
This blog recently covered an interesting antitrust case that upheld the Supreme Court’s bright line rule established in Illinois Brick: indirect buyers are barred from pursuing money damages under the…
Massachusetts Chapter 93A Insights
Illinois Brick’s Indirect Purchaser Bar Does Not Apply to Consumer Claims under Mass. Ch. 93A, Section 9
By David G. Thomas, Angela C. Bunnell
On Aug. 21, 2024, in In re Amitiza Antitrust Litig., the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a c.93A claim brought by a putative class of…
Minding Your Business
The Seventh Circuit Asks, “What’s Wrong With Having Lots of Patents?”
By Siegmund Y. Gutman, Christopher E. Ondeck, David Munkittrick
The answer? Not much, in itself. If one patent is good, 132 is probably fine too. That was Judge Easterbrook’s reasoning in a recent decision addressing indirect purchasers’ antitrust challenge…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Apple v. Pepper, Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Class Actions, and the Future of Illinois Brick (Part 2)
By Bona Law PC
Author: Jarod Bona This is part two of an article about the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Apple v. Pepper, the classic antitrust cases of Illinois Brick and Hanover Shoe,…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Lawsuits, Illinois Brick, and Apple v. Pepper (Part 1)
By Bona Law PC
Author: Jarod Bona Thanks to a 1977 US Supreme Court case called Illinois Brick v. Illinois, class-action-antitrust plaintiff claims may look strange. You might expect to see named plaintiffs for…
Antitrust Alert
Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Indirect Purchaser Class in Auto Transmission Case, Revives Individual Claims
By Ashley L. McMahon, Stefan M. Meisner
On February 9, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a ruling by the US District Court for the District of Delaware that indirect purchasers of Class…
Competition chronicle
Defending Criminal Prosecutions and Class Action Litigation: An Increasingly Harmonized Defence Strategy
Recent developments in Canadian competition law have caused the defence of criminal prosecutions and class action litigation under the Competition Act to be increasingly intertwined. The most significant of these…
Antitrust Law Blog
Plaintiffs Hit an <i>Illinois Brick</i> Wall: Indirect Purchasers of iPhone Apps Lack Standing to Bring Antitrust Suit
On December 2, 2013, United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California dismissed a case against Apple brought by a putative class of consumers who…
Class Action Countermeasures
Indirect Purchaser Class-Action Settlements
By The Editors
Still fighting a virus and a heavy schedule, so my apologies for providing only a brief post this week. So let me point you to a working paper from…
The Contingency
Third Circuit Cuts Global Diamond Class
DeBeers, the diamond behemoth, limited supply of and fixed prices on sparklies for years and years and in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. But it sold to…