Price Fixing

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…

In the last 12 months, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division has announced 19 new criminal cases. All of the cases focused on local markets. While this is not entirely new, it is in stark…

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…

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…

It's shaping up to be a busy term for antitrust issues at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court on January 12 decided to review a third antitrust case. In the context of a price fixing action against…

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a handful of petitions in antitrust cases. Since that time, new petitions for certiorari have been filed in competition law cases with the…