A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday reversed summary judgment in favor of CenterPoint Energy Services in an antitrust class action, finding the plaintiffs had offered evidence that CenterPoint’s parent company participated in a price-fixing cartel – creating triable issues as to CenterPoint’s liability in the scheme.
Read moreBASF, Bayer, DuPont, Dow and others conspired to fix the price of isocyanates, used to make flexible foam, a class claims in a federal antitrust complaint.
Read moreA class action filed in Philadelphia federal court accuses BASF, Bayer and other companies of fixing the prices of raw materials used to create polyurethanes by closing plants and limiting production.
Read moreA federal antitrust class action against top pork producers claims they have conspired for nearly a decade to restrict the supply of pork, causing consumers to pay higher prices.
Read moreBalancing diplomacy with common sense, the Supreme Court found it improper Thursday that a nearly $148 million price-fixing verdict fell apart on China’s say-so.
Read moreHome Depot claims in court the nation’s largest suppliers of drywall are engaged in a conspiracy to artificially inflate prices and prevent competition inside the $3 billion industry.
Read moreA magistrate for the EU’s top court sided Thursday with Infineon Technologies in the company’s challenge to a $107 million it faces for price fixing.
Read moreThe Plymouth County Retirement System filed a class action claiming Minnesota-based Patterson Companies colluded with competitors to fix prices of dental supply products, causing stock to drop 5 percent in a $160 million market cap loss when the scheme was revealed.
Read moreThree pharmaceutical companies are poised to shell out a total of $270 million to settle antitrust claims related to their alleged collusion to prevent a generic form of an expensive pain medication from reaching market, according to documents released Wednesday.
Read moreThe European Union’s antitrust watchdog is sounding the warning to business cartels by announcing fines about $600 million in three antitrust cases.
Read moreNew Englanders claim in a federal class action that they overpaid for electricity and natural gas by at least $3.6 billion from 2013 to 2016 because Eversource Energy and Avangrid inflated prices.
Read moreAdding to the billions paid by banks that manipulated prices in foreign-currency exchanges, BNP Paribas USA has agreed to a $90 million fine as part of the latest guilty plea.
Read moreThe Supreme Court took up a case Friday where a China-based supplier of vitamin C averted U.S. antitrust liability because of its obligations to the Chinese government.
Read moreA chemical company executive accused of rigging municipal water treatment bids pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday.
Read moreA woman claims in a class action that Canada Bread Co. and nine others conspired to fix the price of bread in Canada since November 2001.
Read moreTwo major South Korean ramen makers will go to trial over claims from food retailers and distributors that they conspired to fix noodle prices in Korea and the United States.
Read moreIn a $250 million antitrust class action Monday, a federal judge dealt a blow to indirect buyers of optical disk drives, granting summary judgment to Samsung, Toshiba and others in a long-running conspiracy case accusing them of fixing prices around the world.
Read moreThe Third Circuit revived claims Friday that Super Bowl ticket hoarding by the NFL caused fans to pay inflated prices on the secondary market.
Read moreA federal judge preliminarily approved an undisclosed settlement Wednesday on class-action claims that Dupont conspired to fix the price of titanium dioxide, a key ingredient in white paint.
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