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Price-Fixing Class Action Antitrust Conspiracies

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Five Steps Hotel Owners, Operators, and Management Companies Can Take to Mitigate Risk in the Face of Heightened Antitrust...

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Revenue-management tools are ubiquitous across sectors, but many hotel owners, operators, and management companies use such tools on a daily basis. As these products have improved, many have incorporated algorithms enabling...more

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Ninth Circuit Clarifies Class Certification Standards in Antitrust Appeal

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The Ninth Circuit approved use of statistical analysis that relies on averaging but reversed class certification because the district court failed to resolve whether more than a de minimis number of putative class members...more

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Municipal VRDO Class Action Survives Banks’ Request for Dismissal

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Financial institutions should work with outside counsel to ensure that their internal policies and external actions minimize conduct that may violate state and Federal laws and regulations, and incentivize employees to reward...more

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Proposed class action alleges generic manufacturers conspired to price-fix and allocate generic market

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On June 3, 2020, a proposed class action was commenced against over 50 generic drug manufacturers... The claim alleges that the generic drug manufacturers violated the Competition Act by conspiring to allocate the market, fix...more

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Former Bumble Bee CEO sentenced to prison for price fixing

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 13 (June 25, 2020): On June 16, Chris Lischewski, former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods LLC, was sentenced to 40 months in jail and a criminal fine of USD 100,000. Lischewski led a...more

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Atlantic Salmon Producers Netted by DOJ

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This month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a criminal investigation into collusive behavior among some of the largest producers of Atlantic salmon. This inquiry follows the DOJ’s June announcement of its separate...more

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D.C. Circuit Affirms Denial of Class Certification; Plaintiffs Derailed by Expert Model Showing Uninjured Shippers

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On August 16, 2019, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a denial of class certification to a proposed class of shippers seeking to recover damages from Class 1 railroads for an alleged price-fixing conspiracy. The...more

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A Bogosian Shortcut Through the Mushroom Patch – The Latest Chapter of a Fairytale Doctrine

Few cases in the antitrust canon have been invoked more frequently, for the wrong reasons, than the Third Circuit’s 1977 decision in Bogosian v. Gulf Oil. For four decades now – culminating in the recent release of a decision...more

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US China Trade War Developments –Trade, False Claims Act, Patents, US/Chinese Antitrust And Securities

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On December 3, 2013, former Congressman Don Bonker of APCO and I will be speaking in Vancouver, Canada at a breakfast conference held by the American Chamber of Commerce on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Demystified: A...more

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