Supply difficulties and price changes are focusing businesses and governments on laws and orders against hoarding and price gouging....more
4/16/2020
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corruption ,
Goods or Services ,
Manufacturers ,
Price Gouging ,
Price Inflation ,
Sales & Distribution Agreements ,
Supply Chain ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
White Collar Crimes
Manufacturers of goods and their attorneys are keeping close watch on the case developing between Woodman's Markets and Clorox. At issue is a manufacturer's ability to use large-packaged goods to work around the price...more
In a highly competitive marketplace, access to price intelligence is an increasingly vital asset for retailers and manufacturers of all kinds of consumer goods and services. Many price intelligence tools allow companies to...more
The past five years have brought a deluge of class actions challenging the way in which the word “natural” is used on food and beverage labels. Perhaps predictably so, this litigation phenomenon resulted from the convergence...more
In Bell Atlantic Co. v. Twombly, the Supreme Court injected a “plausibility” standard into Rule 12(b)(6) for claims asserting an alleged antitrust conspiracy. Since then, lower courts, scholars, and practitioners have written...more
6/6/2014
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Antitrust Conspiracies ,
Antitrust Injuries ,
Apple ,
Capital One ,
Class Action ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
iTunes ,
Monopolization ,
Plausibility Standard ,
Price Discrimination ,
Sutter ,
Twombly/Iqbal Pleading Standard
A cottage industry of class action litigation recently grown up in the shadow of the FDA’s refusal to define the term “natural” for the purpose of food product labeling. In these class action suits, claimants allege that...more