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Health insurance continues to face claims over alleged conspiracy with provider

In an antitrust class action filed by a Pennsylvania hotel alleging that it was overcharged for health insurance as the result of a conspiracy between the area’s largest health insurance provider and its largest healthcare provider, the federal district court in Pittsb

Egg producers fail in rebooted attempt to decertify direct purchaser class

Denying a group of egg producers’ motion to decertify a class of shell egg direct purchasers who asserted antitrust claims, a federal district court in Pennsylvania found most of the defendants’ argument had already been, or could have been, addressed in its init

Trial set for January in U.S. case against five California real estate investors

A jury trial has been set to begin on January 16, 2018, in a Department of Justice Antitrust Division action against five California real estate investors. The five individuals—Joseph J. Giraudo, Raymond A. Grinsell, Kevin B. Cullinane, James F. Appendrodt, and Abraham

Need for new antitrust standards, advocate questioned by advocacy group

In recent decades, Congress has been loath to tweak or tamper with the antitrust laws. However, Democratic lawmakers are now calling for antitrust reform as part of their "Better Deal." The Better Deal plan for empowering American families and workers, an

Justice Department opposes Supreme Court considering AmEx anti-steering suit

The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to let stand a Second Circuit ruling that the government failed to prove that "anti-steering" rules that prohibited merchants who accepted American Express cards from directing customers to a

Sovereign immunity barred claims in dispute over university meal plan

Under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, a pro se plaintiff could not pursue federal antitrust claims against the University of Georgia’s Board of Regents for what he viewed as the Board’s wrongful decision to charge him for a university meal plan prog

U.S. files first charges in probe of online sellers of customized promotional products

Zaappaaz Inc., a company that markets customized promotional products such as wristbands and lanyards, has agreed to plead guilty to Department of Justice charges that it conspired to fix prices. Today, the Justice Department announced that Zaappaaz, which does bus

Parallel but independent behavior did not support containerboard conspiracy claims

Fifteen price increase announcements and numerous supply reductions by paper companies over six and a half years did not raise a reasonable inference of a conspiracy to fix prices for containerboard products, the federal district court in Chicago has decided. In light of a c

Market for electronic keypad locks deemed too narrow

Antitrust claims against a designer/manufacturer of high-performance electronic locks and locker security solutions were dismissed for failure to allege a plausible product market limited to electronic keypad locks (EKLs). EKLs, commonly found on lockers in fitness center lo

Seattle ordinance permitting bargaining by drivers-for-hire survives antitrust challenge

After first finding that the Chamber of Commerce had standing to challenge a Seattle ordinance that provides a mechanism through which for-hire drivers can collectively bargain, a federal district court in Washington granted the city’s motion to dismiss all claims brou

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