Work Area: Private Antitrust Litigation

A defunct hotel booking platform cannot hide behind US antitrust laws to justify its inability to adapt to a new search engine algorithm, Expedia has said.

01 September 2023

Indivior has convinced a federal judge in Philadelphia to allow it to present evidence at trial that its drug Suboxone faces competition from other opioid addiction treatments.

31 August 2023

Canadian claimants bringing a class action lawsuit against Amazon worth nearly €8.1 billion for alleged price-fixing agreements with retailers will appeal against a court’s ruling to deny certification.

30 August 2023

Google is likely to avoid a steep payout to 21 million consumers after a California federal judge backtracked on a previous ruling and excluded the damages calculations of the plaintiffs’ primary expert.

30 August 2023

Apple does not need to disclose more than 120,000 UK customer complaints as part of a proposed class action seeking damages against the company for the use of malfunctioning batteries in iPhones, the country’s specialist competition tribunal has said.

29 August 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reinstated allegations that McDonald’s illegally restricted hiring at its franchises, recommending that a lower court allow former employees to pursue their lawsuit as a per se violation of US antitrust law.

29 August 2023

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2024

Two Ninth Circuit cases address whether Rule 23 prohibits the certification of classes that include more than a de minimis number of uninjured class members. The court’s drastically different rulings have focused attention on the application of the FRCP to class actions and antitrust enforcement more generally.

25 August 2023

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2024

The Biden administration is turning up the heat on anti-competitive activity in the employment space, promoting federal agency rulemaking to curtail perceived harmful practices.

25 August 2023

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2024

New legislation and legal challenges in the life sciences industry are yielding a plethora of cases – specifically in regard to reverse-payment and product-hopping – grabbing the attention of leading producers and everyday consumers.

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