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Antitrust claims against producer and exporter of Mexican salt barred by act of state doctrine

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of an antitrust action against Mitsubishi Corporation and a major producer and exporter of solar sea salt products co-owned by Mitsubishi and the Mexican government because the action was barred by the act

Antitrust claims against grocery wholesaler fail where expert testimony was unreliable

A grocery retailer produced failed to offer support for its claim that a wholesaler asset exchange agreement caused it to pay higher prices, and therefore its antitrust action could not go forward. The federal district court in Minneapolis granted wholesaler SuperValu, Inc.&

Liberty Tax Service did not validly extend agreement to sell back franchises

A tax preparation service franchisee who fulfilled the necessary condition to buy back his franchises after the initial agreement deadline but before the end of an extension period was not entitled to damages based on the franchisor’s failure to sell back the franchise

Pfizer suit against J&J over conduct in biologic markets survives motion to dismiss

Pfizer adequately stated claims that Johnson & Johnson engaged in an anticompetitive scheme to prevent Pfizer’s Inflectra and other biosimilars from competing with Johnson & Johnson’s Remicade in the drug market for products treating immune-mediated disea

Second guilty plea in investigation into Florida online auction bid rigging

The second of three Florida real estate investors charged in November 2017 with conspiring to rig bids submitted through the online property foreclosure auction process in Palm Beach County, Florida, has pleaded guilty for his role in the conspiracy, the Department of Justic

Private antitrust claim against merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller fails

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco has affirmed the dismissal of a private lawsuit challenging Anheuser-Busch InBev’s acquisition of SABMiller, finding that because the Department of Justice required SABMiller to divest its US domestic beer business as a requir

US Olympic Committee, Track & Field body immune from antitrust attack over logo rules

USA Track & Field ("USATF") and the United States Olympics Committee ("USOC") were shielded by implied antitrust immunity from an energy chewing gum manufacturer’s allegations that they had engaged in an unlawful anticompetitive conspiracy by im

Magazine wholesaler unable to pursue boycott claim against publishers

In an antitrust suit in which a magazine wholesaler, Anderson News, alleged that various magazine publishers conspired to boycott Anderson and drive it out of business, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in fav

No standing in Reno trash service area antitrust case

Because two entities that claimed antitrust injury after the City of Reno created exclusive service areas for trash and recyclable hauling did not demonstrate any injury, they did not have standing to bring claims under the Nevada Unfair Trade Practices Act (UTPA), held the

OTC settlement with Citi and Barclays in LIBOR manipulation litigation

Final settlement of claims brought by OTC plaintiffs against Citibank, N.A. and Barclays Bank PLC involving widespread manipulation of the LIBOR benchmark rate has been approved by the federal district court in New York City. Under the settlement, Citibank will pay $130 mill

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