Topic: Standalone claims

Mastercard is facing yet another interchange fee action in the UK as HM Revenue and Customs seeks damages from the credit company before the High Court of England and Wales.

09 January 2023

A federal district court has refused to dismiss a class action claim accusing the National Association of Realtors and four real estate brokers of conspiring to inflate commissions paid to realtors in home sales.

20 December 2022

South America’s largest online marketplace has complained to the Brazilian and Mexican competition authorities that Apple imposes unlawful restrictions on digital retailers.

16 December 2022

A UK court has rejected an interim measures request from a debt management company in a standalone abuse of dominance claim to prevent Google from implementing a policy change on Google Ads for insolvency practitioners.

05 December 2022

Law firm Leigh Day plans to file the UK’s first-ever "environmental" collective action against several wastewater companies accused of breaching the country's antitrust rules, a week after an economic consultancy urged the country’s competition authority to open a probe based on the same allegations.

24 November 2022

A court in British Columbia has rejected an application by e-cigarette company Altria seeking to dismiss a proposed class action alleging it colluded with rival Juul to design and market vaping products, ruling it can hear claims based on damages suffered in the province even if a company does not conduct any business in Canada.

18 October 2022

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has dismissed a request from several major banks accused of manipulating foreign exchange rates to hold a separate trial on their statute of limitation defences, finding that their arguments are not a “slam dunk” and would cause considerable delay to a parallel case.

12 October 2022

Canada’s Federal Court has ordered Amazon purchasers to arbitrate their claims that the online retailer’s “fair pricing” policy amounts to price-fixing.

05 October 2022

Heineken’s Greek subsidiary should have foreseen that it could be sued in the jurisdiction where its parent company is based when it infringed competition rules in Greece, an advocate-general at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands has said.

07 September 2022

A consumer rights advocate is seeking up to £5 billion in damages from Sony on behalf of nine million consumers that allegedly overpaid for digital games or in-game content when making purchases from the PlayStation Store.

22 August 2022