In Valuepest.com of Charlotte Inc. et al. v. Bayer Corp. et al., a termite-killing products price-fixing conspiracy case, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s decision to deny the plaintiff’s motion to correct the judgment under Rule 60 on the ground that the plaintiffs abandoned the issues of abandonment and mandate, raised in […]
Category Archives: Predatory Pricing
Price-Fixing Action Against Oil Companies Dismissed by Ninth Circuit As Time-Barred
December 16, 2009 – 12:13 am
In Mike Madani et al. v. Shell Oil Co. et al., Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action filed by gas station owners in California accusing Shell Oil Co., Chevron Corp., and Saudi Refining Inc. of engaging in a scheme to fix fuel prices for U.S. franchise owners during […]
Small Local Telephone Providers Accuse AT&T of Predatory Pricing
August 18, 2009 – 5:43 pm
In a Northern District of Texas case, local telephone providers are accusing AT&T of seeking to drive them out of business by refusing to permit new customers of the competitors to receive the $50 rebate that AT&T provides to its own new customers. In the past, AT&T had made this rebate available to all new […]