Work Area: Private Antitrust Litigation

Israeli Supreme Court annuls damages award in first excessive pricing class action

Israel’s highest court has annulled a decision awarding €4 million in damages to a class of consumers that claimed they overpaid for cottage cheese after ruling a lower court failed to prove the prices were excessive.

21 March 2023

Judge denies summary judgment in auto glass boycott case

A pair of auto glass wholesalers will need to prove at trial that two rivals cut off their supply through an illegal boycott, a federal New York judge has held in rejecting the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.

21 March 2023

Apple accused of thwarting disclosure again in UK class action claim

Claimants in a £1.5 billion class action claim against Apple have urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to order the iPhone maker to explain how it deems 7,000 documents filed to the country’s antitrust watchdog are irrelevant to the lawsuit.

20 March 2023

Uber, Postmates and Grubhub cannot enforce “infinite” arbitration clause

Uber, Postmates and Grubhub cannot force arbitration against consumers' claims that they conspired with restaurants to fix meal prices, a federal judge in Manhattan has said.

20 March 2023

New plaintiff takes over Jiffy Lube no-poach litigation

A former Jiffy Lube employee can lead a lawsuit challenging the company’s alleged use of no-poach agreements between franchisees after the previous lead plaintiff’s $2 million settlement excluded him, a Philadelphia federal judge has said.

20 March 2023

CAT may cancel certification of £400 million train operator class action

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has said it may revoke its previous decision to certify a £400 million opt-out abuse of dominance claim against Govia Thameslink Railway now that the claimants’ expert economist has withdrawn from the proceedings.

17 March 2023

$5.6 billion Visa, Mastercard settlement survives

An appellate court has upheld the approval of a $5.6 billion settlement resolving a class-action lawsuit in which 12 million businesses alleged Visa and Mastercard fixed payment processing fees.

17 March 2023

Nexstar is illegally connected to divested TV stations, DirecTV says

Nexstar Media Group is illegally maintaining financial control over two of the “Big Four” television broadcast stations in parts of the country to fix retransmission fees paid by providers, DirecTV has said.

17 March 2023

Shipping cartelist urges CAT to combine collective and individual damages claims

Counsel to Mitsui OSK Lines has urged the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to combine two separate claims it is facing following its role in the international roll-on, roll-off shipping cartel, warning it could otherwise be forced to “give up” on settling them out of court.

15 March 2023

Burford wins injunction to halt Sysco antitrust settlements

A split tribunal at the London Court of International Arbitration has granted Burford Capital a preliminary injunction to prevent client Sysco from settling several of its price-fixing claims against US meat suppliers, with a preliminary finding that the funder was granted a “prior consent right” over settlements.

15 March 2023

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