Antitrust Litigation, Discovery, Class Action

Raising the “Low Bar”: Plaintiffs Seek New Strategies to Prove Common Issues for Certification

Bennett Jones LLP on 5/27/2025

A plaintiff’s obligation to establish “some basis in fact” for a common issue is acknowledged as a low bar. Several Canadian appellate courts have, however, confirmed a “two-step test” as the standard analytical framework....more

REMICADE Antitrust Settlement Receives Final Approval

Goodwin on 4/13/2023

In 2017, three indirect-purchaser antitrust class actions were filed against Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Biotech, Inc., alleging that they engaged in anticompetitive conduct relating to the sale and marketing of J&J’s...more

Pork Price-Fixing Complaint Dismissed: Class Plaintiffs Will Amend

Bilzin Sumberg on 9/12/2019

Chief Judge Tunheim recently dismissed, with leave to amend, the class complaints in In Re Pork Antitrust Litigation. The Pork case— filed in the District of Minnesota against Tyson, Hormel, JBS and other major pork...more

Attacking Class Certification on a Motion to Dismiss? A Recent Decision Says There is a Way - Insights - Proskauer Rose LLP

Proskauer Rose LLP on 7/10/2019

Antitrust class action counsel are in the business of extracting cash from defendants in the form of settlements that are, in effect, a tax on every transaction in the market covered by the case. The bigger the market, the...more

The UFC’s Biggest Bout Yet: Its Battle Against Its Fighters’ Antitrust Lawsuit

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 3/4/2017

We have not previously reported on an antitrust litigation that is enveloping the mixed martial arts (“MMA”) world. Six current and former MMA fighters have filed a class action lawsuit against the company that owns the UFC,...more

Collusion Course: The Limits of Hot Documents

BakerHostetler on 6/18/2015

Discovery in antitrust cases often involves a search for smoking-gun documents. Those documents can consist of emails proving that competitors conspired to raise prices, removing the difficulties faced by prosecutors or civil...more