The European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed the appeal brought by Repsol, General Quimica SA, and Repsol Quimica SA challenging a $4.9 million fine levied by the Commission. The ECJ upheld the fine, but reversed a lower court decision to hold the companies jointly and severally liable. In 2005, the EC fined the companies for […]
Category Archives: Information Exchange
Nurses’ Salary Class Action to Move Forward
August 16, 2010 – 2:49 pm
Northern District of NY Judge Thomas McAvoy denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, holding that the allegationsof information exchanges and surpressed wages was sufficient to permit a jury to find both collusive activity and actual anticompetitive effects. The court also denied the one unionized hospital’s motion to dismiss on non-statutory labor […]
Plywood Price Fixing Conspiracy Case to Proceed
March 22, 2010 – 11:19 am
Southern District of Mississippi Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., has refused to dismiss price fixing claims against major plywood producers Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, and Louisiana Pacific with respect to purchases of (1) plywood made after November 2004 and (2) OSB. Claims based on earlier plywood purchases were deemed barred by the expiration of the statute of limitations. […]
Chicago Nurses Can’t Show Classwide Injury
October 1, 2009 – 2:21 pm
In Reed v. Advocate Health Care et al., Northern District of Illinois Judge John F. Grady, has denied class certification to a group of nurses who had sued four separate hospital systems in the greater Chicago area alleging that the institutions colluded to suppress their wages. In their suit, the nurses claimed that five Chicago-area […]