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Broadening Application Of The Filed Rate Doctrine

Originally published in Competition Law360 on September 13, 2012. Ninety years ago Justice Brandeis delivered the opinion in Keogh v. Northwestern Railway Co., 260 U.S. 156 (1922), and based on four policy reasons,...more

Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Pursue Antitrust Class Action Against Insurance Company Subsidiaries

U.S. District Court – Northern District of California In Perez v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 2011 WL 5833636 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 15, 2011), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed an...more

Tenth Circuit Rules That Title Insurers Did Not Violate Antitrust Laws Even If They Allegedly Conspired to Bribe the State...

On April 26, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed, on the basis of the filed rate doctrine and other grounds, a lower court’s decision to dismiss putative class claims asserted against Insurer...more