Topic: Price fixing

The Department of Justice lost its first-ever criminal wage-fixing trial earlier this spring when a federal jury in Texas acquitted John Rodgers and Neeraj Jindal of conspiring to reduce wages for physical therapists. Brian Poe, who represented Rodgers as an independent defence lawyer, spoke to GCR USA about where he believes the government lost the jury and why his client was the wrong trial balloon.

13 June 2022

A UK appeals court has rejected Gemalto’s request to overturn a lower court’s decision that dismissed its €480 million follow-on damages claim against smart card chip makers as time-barred, ruling the company did not need to know every aspect of the cartel to file the claim.

10 June 2022

Korea’s antitrust watchdog has fined 15 freight shippers a total of €60 million for operating a 17-year cartel that fixed prices on routes to Japan, but declined to impose any fines on different liner operators for similar conduct affecting routes to China.

09 June 2022

The Portuguese Competition Authority has fined consumer goods manufacturer Unilever and four supermarket chains a combined €132 million in its latest infringement decision involving hub-and-spoke arrangements in the retail sector, bringing the total fines to over €645 million.

09 June 2022

An Australian judge has issued the first-ever prison sentences to individuals convicted of breaching the country's cartel rules, although the four defendants will avoid serving any time in jail for their conspiracy to fix exchange rates if they comply with good behaviour orders.

09 June 2022

Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined nine duck meat processing companies and an industry association more than €4.6 million in total for fixing prices and restricting supply over nearly five and a half years.

08 June 2022

Car safety equipment manufacturers need not disclose documents they gave to competition authorities outside the EU for the PSA Group to use in a follow-on damages claim against them, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled.

07 June 2022

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has accused Rangers Football Club and two sportswear retailers of colluding to fix the prices of Rangers-branded clothing at the expense of football fans.

07 June 2022

The Competition Commission of Pakistan has raided the offices of two companies suspected of fixing freight charges at the country’s two leading seaports.

20 May 2022

A woman who has pleaded guilty to two price-fixing charges in Australia has urged a court not to impose a custodial sentence.

18 May 2022