Legislators at many levels of government in the United States have proposed prohibiting the use of software algorithms that depend on non-public data from competitors to assist sellers in making…
Federal and state antitrust enforcers and the private plaintiffs’ bar have revenue management software (RMS) squarely in their sights. In a string of recent antitrust cases, they have attacked…
Two items recently in the cartel news caught my eye because they have something in common: the chicken parts criminal price fixing prosecution failures and Donald C. Klawiter’s article calling for A…
On November 29, 2021 in U.S. v. Neeraj Jindal and John Rodgers, Civil Action No. 4:20-CR-00358A (N.D. Texas), District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant rejected defendants’ motion to dismiss the…
A. The Broiler Chicken Civil Litigation/Criminal Indictment
On June 3, 2020, a grand jury in Colorado returned an indictment charging executives from Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and Claxton…
US v. Lischewski, Case No. 3:18-cr-00203-EMC (N.D. Cal.)
Christopher Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee who was convicted of price fixing after a trial last December, is scheduled to be…
United States v. Kemp & Associates and Daniel Mannix, Case No., 2:16-cr-403 (DS). JudgeSamPerSeMemorandum
On August 17, 2016 the defendants in this case were indicted on one count of violating §1 of…
In a decision pondering the adequacy of the Sherman Act to protect consumers from consciously parallel conduct among oligopolists, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld dismissal of a class…
In an earlier post I discussed the Fiscal Year 2018 Antitrust Division statistics for criminal cases filed and noted that they were down dramatically (here). This is not a one year drop off, but a…
