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Trade Associations Antitrust Violations

ArentFox Schiff

DOJ to Associations: Every Statement May Be an Antitrust Violation

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Trade associations and other cooperatives should heed the warning implied by the US Department of Justice’s aggressive stance in a recent court filing Trade associations and other cooperatives should heed the warning...more

Hogan Lovells

DOJ resolves antitrust investigations into trade association standards-setting activity

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On 12 December 2019, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that it has entered into a proposed consent decree with the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) settling charges that...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Conspiracies and Trade Associations

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Section 1 of the Sherman Act prohibits any “contract, combination ... or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce.” As a result, in order to establish a viable claim under this section, there must be factual evidence of...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Pharma Distributors Trade Association Sued for Conspiracy to Exclude Competition for its Track and Trace Software

On October 23, 2017, a company that developed software to track and trace pharmaceuticals filed a complaint against a pharmaceutical distributors trade association that currently dominates the market for such software,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Nonprofits: Beware of Antitrust Troubles

On June 12, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey denied a motion to dismiss a class action against the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) in Talone v. American Osteopathic Association (No....more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Colorado Court Sends Shepherds’ Wage-Fixing Antitrust Suit Out to Pasture

Defendants in a putative class action lawsuit alleging wage fixing antitrust claims no longer need to count sheep to rest easily. A district court judge in Colorado recently denied plaintiffs’ request for leave to amend,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Challenge to Alleged Horizontal Adoption of Minimum Advertised Prices

In what has been described as the latest opinion on the use of hub and spoke theories to allege conspiracies in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the plaintiffs took the position that the viability of their claims...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Divided Fourth Circuit Panel Slices Up Twombly in Table Saw Boycott Suit

Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit issued a significant decision in a boycott conspiracy case, SD3, LLC v. Black & Decker, No. 14-1746 (4th Cir. Sept. 15, 2015). The suit, at its heart, turns on the...more

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