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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Bringing Back Indirect Purchasers – DOJ Considers Seeking Reversal of Illinois Brick

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For over 40 years, the Supreme Court has barred, with very limited exceptions, indirect purchasers— end customers who purchase products through an intermediate source—from seeking federal antitrust damages. But Andrew Finch,...more

Zelle LLP

2016 Highlights From Indirect Purchaser Class Actions

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As 2016 comes to a close, we review some of the more interesting court decisions in the indirect purchaser class action arena over the past 12 months and provide practitioners with some key takeaways for 2017 and beyond....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

In re Capacitors Antitrust Class Action Litigation Survives Motion to Dismiss

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Direct and indirect capacitor purchasers who filed class action complaints against an alleged worldwide cartel of capacitor manufacturers have, for the most part, survived a motion to dismiss in the Northern District of...more

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First Circuit Upholds Class Certification in Nexium Indirect Purchaser Case

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In a split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the certification of a class of indirect purchasers who allege that they paid inflated prices for the heartburn drug Nexium. In re Nexium Antitrust...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle - Spring 2014

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This is the third edition of The Class Action Chronicle, a quarterly publication that provides an analysis of recent class action trends, along with a summary of class certification and Class Action Fairness Act rulings...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Plaintiffs Hit an Illinois Brick Wall: Indirect Purchasers of iPhone Apps Lack Standing to Bring Antitrust Suit

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On December 2, 2013, United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California dismissed a case against Apple brought by a putative class of consumers who purchased applications from the App...more

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Canada's Supreme Court Opens the Door to Indirect Purchaser Class Actions

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On October 31, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released three decisions which many commentators had predicted would be the most critical antitrust class action decisions in recent memory. The Supreme Court did not...more

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A Busy Year in Court: Canadian Competition Law in 2012

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2012 was a busy year for Canadian competition litigation, as numerous cases were heard or decided. The Supreme Court of Canada heard three class proceedings cases involving the Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal had...more

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