Topic
price fixing
553 published works
The Food Court
Salmon Price-Fixing Litigation Survives Dismissal
By Kayla Hernandez, Lori Lustrin
On March 26, 2021, Southern District of Florida District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied a motion to dismiss an antitrust class action alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of…
Consumer Class Defense Counsel
Of Tuna Price-Fixing Conspiracies, Econometric Regressions, and the Ninth Circuit’s Latest Guidance on Class Certification
By Jay N. Varon, James T. McKeown, Elizabeth A. N. Haas, Jaikaran Singh, Aaron R. Wegrzyn
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision vacating a district court order certifying three plaintiff classes pursuing damages for alleged price-fixing conspiracies…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
The French Competition Authority Fines Leading Manufacturers of Industrial Sandwiches €24 Million for Entering Into an Anticompetitive Agreement
On March 24, 2021, the FCA sanctioned[1] three manufacturers of industrial sandwiches sold under private labels, La Toque Angevine (“LTA”), Daunat, and Roland Monterrat, for fixing prices and market allocation…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
One-size-Fits-all: The Ethylene Decision Confirms the Commission’s Practice to Apply a 10% Fine Uplift to Purchaser Cartels
On January 22, 2021, the Commission published the non-confidential version of its July 2020 settlement decision, fining three purchasers of ethylene[1] a total of €260 million for infringing Article 101…
Inside Government Contracts
Expansion of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force
By Ross Demain, Michael Pierce, Michael Wagner
Just over a year after launching the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (“PCSF”), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced new measures to further its pursuit of antitrust and…
The Right Coast
Collusion vs. Collusion – American Greatness
Is suspicion of Chinese collusion paranoia?Think for a minute.What country could put 1 million religious dissidents in a gulag archipelago, destroy the semi-independence of Hong Kong, threaten any of its…
The Food Court
Federal Court Denies Motions to Dismiss Turkey Price-Fixing Case
By Benjamin Mitchel, Lori Lustrin, Ilana Drescher
On Monday, October, 19, 2020, Northern District of Illinois Judge Virginia M. Kendall denied three motions to dismiss a putative class action alleging that the nation’s leading turkey suppliers—including Butterball,…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
CMA and SFO to join forces on cartel cases
By Pamela Reddy (UK), Susanna Rogers, Nishant Singh
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling the two regulators to investigate criminal cartel offences, either jointly…
The Food Court
Chicken Criminal Price-Fixing Case Heats Up
By Ilana Drescher, Lori Lustrin
As the Bilzin Sumberg team previously reported in June 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted four executives from Pilgrim’s Pride and Claxton Poultry for their participation in a conspiracy…
Antitrust & Competition Blog
Another Generic Drug Company Accepts a Criminal Indictment Alleging Collusion
By Patrick Linehan, Rachel Peck
(This is a cross-post from Steptoe’s new Investigations and Enforcement Blog.) The Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s investigation into price-fixing by generic drug companies continues to remain one of the Antitrust…