Topic: Collective actions

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2024

The DOJ and FTC are discouraging injunctions and other exclusionary remedies favoured by standard essential patent holders as part of a significant shift in antitrust enforcement from the Trump to Biden administration.

25 August 2023

Nippon Chemi-Con and its subsidiary United Chemi-Con have agreed to pay €14.5 million to settle two separate Canadian class action claims.

24 August 2023

Featured in Class actions hub 2022/2023

The commission’s efforts to reduce exploitation by gig platforms may fuel a rise in class action suits among workers determined to protect their rights.

22 August 2023

Featured in Class Actions Hub 2023/2024

The commission’s efforts to reduce exploitation by gig platforms may fuel a rise in class action suits among workers determined to protect their rights.

22 August 2023

Featured in Class actions hub 2022/2023

As the most recent in a run of decisions demonstrating a judicial willingness to deny the certification of unsubstantiated claims, the Jensen case highlights that proposed class actions can be defeated if the plaintiffs’ allegations are not a fair representation of the underlying evidence on which they rely.

16 August 2023

An Israeli television station has reportedly accused three businesses of colluding to drop advertising contracts in an attempt to “cancel” the channel.

11 August 2023

Amazon may have to face claims it illegally monopolised the market for retail ebooks after a magistrate judge in New York found that purchasers had plausibly alleged they suffered antitrust injury.

03 August 2023

A decision forcing Amazon purchasers to arbitrate their competition claims against the company was correct, a Canadian appellate court has confirmed, while noting that the country’s government could legislate to shield consumers from arbitration clauses in competition cases.

31 July 2023

The antitrust community is mourning the loss of plaintiffs bar giant Jonathan Cuneo, who died on 26 July at the age of 70.

31 July 2023

Following the UK Supreme Court’s landmark judgment on funding agreements, claimant-side lawyers and litigation funders are considering whether the ruling’s impact on the country’s growing collective antitrust regime is as far-reaching as initially envisioned.

28 July 2023