In American Airlines Inc. v. Travelport Ltd. et al., Northern District of Texas Judge Terry R. Means ruled American Airlines Inc. claim that Sabre Holdings Corp., Travelport Ltd., and Orbitz Worldwide Inc. affiliate conspired to exclude the airline’s AA Direct Connect system from the flight booking market. The motion to dismiss claimed that American’s allegations […]
Author Archives: Steve Semeraro
Court Certifies Purchaser Class in Blood Reagent Antitrust Suit
August 31, 2012 – 1:24 pm
In In re: Blood Reagents Antitrust Litigation, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Jan E. DuBois certified a class of direct purchasers in an antitrust action alleging that through a series of meetings and communications, Johnson & Johnson unit, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc., conspired with Immucor Inc. to fix prices on reagents used in blood tests. The […]
California Appeals Court Refuses to Revive Pharmacies’ Price-Fixing Suit
August 31, 2012 – 1:02 pm
In Clayworth v. Pfizer, California Appeals Court for the First Appellate District upheld a grant of summary judgment to more than a dozen major pharmaceutical companies and the industry group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. In the consolidated antitrust suit, a group of pharmacists alleged that Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, and other drugmakers violated […]
Pharmacy Cooperative Agrees to a 20-Year Ban on Price Negotiations
August 31, 2012 – 11:25 am
In In the Matter of Cooperativa de Farmacias Puertorriquenas, the Cooperativa de Farmacias Puertorriquenas (Coopharma), a Puerto Rican pharmacy cooperative, agreed to stop negotiating prices on behalf of its more than 300 members for 10 years, as part of an antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC’s complaint, Coopharma, which consists […]
Court Refused to Dismiss Collusion Suit Over 4G Standards
August 31, 2012 – 10:53 am
In TruePosition Inc. v. LM Ericsson Telephone Co. et al., Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Robert F. Kelly refused to dismiss an antitrust suit against Qualcomm Inc., LM Ericsson Telephone Co., and Alcate-Lucent SA. In its suit, TruePosition claims that the defendants violated antitrust laws by conspiring to use their influence within two standard-setting organizations […]
Arbitration Denied in Digital Voice Service Antitrust Suit
August 31, 2012 – 10:04 am
In Fromer v. Comcast Corp. et al., District of Connecticut Judge Stefan Underhill denied Comcast Corp.’s request to send a customer’s putative class action antitrust suit to arbitration, holding that under the Second Circuit’s ruling in American Express III, the waiver is void because plaintiff can show that the class action waiver in the arbitration […]
Court Dismissed Antitrust Claims against American Airlines for Failure to Show Injury
August 20, 2012 – 10:38 am
In American Airlines Inc. v. Travelport Ltd., Northern District of Texas Judge Terry R. Means dismissed Travelport Ltd.’s counterclaims against American Airlines Inc., ruling that the fare data distributor lacked standing to bring the antitrust allegations because it had not suffered direct antitrust injury from the alleged behavior, in American Airlines’ suit over an alleged plot […]
Puerto Rico Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Cable Company’s Antitrust Suit
August 20, 2012 – 10:19 am
In Puerto Rico Telephone Co. Inc. v. San Juan Cable LLC d/b/a OneLink Communications, Puerto Rico District Court Judge Gustavo A. Gelpi denied San Juan Cable LLC’s motion to dismiss Puerto Rico Telephone Co. Inc.’s suit accusing the company of violating federal and Puerto Rico antitrust by filing numerous lawsuits against PRTC to prevent it […]
Tenth Circuit Upholds a Denial of Nationwide Class Certification in a Cable Set-Top Box Antitrust Suit
August 20, 2012 – 9:51 am
In Gelder et al. v. CoxCom Inc. et al., Tenth Circuit denied a motion to appeal a denial of a nationwide class certification, requested by customers of Cox Communications Inc. in an antitrust suit, accusing Cox of illegally tying set-top boxes to its cable services. In their suit, the customers claimed that Cox violated the […]
Helicopter Transfer Price Fixing Claim Dismissed
August 17, 2012 – 9:52 am
In Superior Offshore International Inc. v. Bristow Group Inc., the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s price fixing claims because of a lack of direct evidence of a conspiracy. The case had been related to a DOJ investigation of the off-shore helicopter transport industry, which is used to transport workers to oil rigs. […]