New York’s two principal consumer fraud statutes, N.Y. G.B.L. §§ 349 and 350, authorize statutory damages of $50 or $500 per violation respectively...more
In April 2021, the Ninth Circuit issued its panel opinion in Wholesale Grocery Cooperative v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC, which held that the district court erred in certifying several classes of tuna purchasers in an antitrust...more
4/20/2022
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Bumble Bee Foods ,
Class Certification ,
Class Members ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Damages ,
En Banc Review ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
Price-Fixing ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Retail Market
In recent years, conjoint analysis has proliferated as a methodology for calculating class-wide damages in consumer class actions. While conjoint analysis first emerged as a marketing tool for measuring consumers’ relative...more