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price fixing
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Litigation Finance Journal
UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Certifies Collective Action Against Shipping Companies For Overcharging Customers
By John Freund
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has certified a collective action against multiple maritime car carriers who operated an illegal cartel to manipulate car shipping prices. Certification clears the way…
Litigation Finance Journal
Court decides that groundbreaking £150m class action on behalf of UK car buyers can proceed
By John Freund
London’s specialist competition court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, has today given the green light to a class action on behalf of millions of motorists and businesses, who bought or leased…
Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog
Federal Financial Aid Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Top Universities of Price Fixing
By Peter S. Lubin, Patrick Austermuehle
Federal law allows schools to collaborate on their formulas for determining the amount of financial aid to award students, but they are not allowed to consider an applicant’s need for…
Competition chronicle
Tendering with an Empowerment Partner? Be Wary of the Collusion Risk
Business people in South Africa who do business by responding to tenders do so well aware that empowerment credentials assist in standing a good chance of winning. Companies seeking to…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
Developments In 2021 In Relation To Horizontal Agreements
In 2021, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) concluded a long-lasting proceeding into price fixing and information exchange in the stainless steel sector after it had already in early 2021…
Litigation Finance Journal
Collective Action Likely as UK Customers Overcharged for Car Delivery
By John Freund
This week, a hearing was held to determine whether a collective action against five car carriers based in Japan, Sweden, and Chile. The action will allege that more than 17…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Plus Factors in Price-Fixing Litigation
Antitrust plaintiffs typically rely on circumstantial evidence when pursuing price-fixing claims, because price-fixing conspirators usually conceal their collusion through code names, secret meetings, cover stories, and falsified documents. Antitrust law…
Real Bankruptcy Intel
What We’re Reading This Week [November 15, 2021]
By Alexander F. Berk, Sean T. Scott, Aaron Gavant
Reporting from the Wall Street Journal indicates that plaintiffs in price fixing lawsuits against generic drugmaker Teligent Inc. have sought court authority to continue that litigation despite Teligent’s October bankruptcy…
The Right Coast
John Durham Is Getting Close to the Jugular | RealClearPolitics
Last week, John Durham s grand jury issued its third criminal indictment in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The person who was arrested may be obscure; the news may have been…
Cartel Capers
DOJ Warns Against Collusion/Fraud in Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts
Bob Connolly bob@reconnnollylaw.com On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, the Antitrust Division issued a press release announcing a joint statement with the Federal Trade Commission warning contractors and vendors not to…