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The Future of Criminal Cartwright Act Prosecutions

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California Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Paula Blizzard recently announced that the California Attorney General’s Office (AGO) intends to “reinvigorat[e] criminal prosecutions” under California’s Cartwright Act, Cal. Bus....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Chris Lazarini Provides Insight on Antitrust Allegations in Gold Price-Fixing Conspiracy Case

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini provided insight on a case in which plaintiffs alleged that UBS AG took part in a global gold price-fixing conspiracy. The court earlier granted UBS' motion to dismiss the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

2017 Statute of Limitations Roundup: Courts Disagree About Applicability of “Continuing Violation” Doctrine in Antitrust Actions

2017 saw three notable decisions concerning the applicability of the “continuing violation” doctrine in antitrust cases. We discuss below three cases that have taken different approaches in their treatment of this...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Third Circuit Holds Food Manufacturers Have Standing to Seek Damages From Egg Suppliers

Last week, in In re: Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision holding that purchasers of processed egg products have standing to seek damages from egg...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

DOJ Slaps Wristband Maker With Price-Fixing Fine

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Zaappaaz Inc., a Texas-based online retailer of customizable promotional products, and the company’s president, Azim Makanojiya, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Procompetitive Effects of Business Associations in the Balance?: Business Association Membership and the Sufficiency of Sherman...

What facts beyond mere membership in a trade association trigger Sherman Act liability? Next term, the Supreme Court will hear an antitrust case testing the requirements for pleading the conspiracy element of a claim brought...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Soda bottler has bitter taste from alleged Pepsi price-fixing

A recent complaint charges PepsiCo Inc. with several antitrust violations, including price fixing and predatory pricing in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, conspiracy and attempt to monopolize in violation of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Rejection of the Antitrust Division's Position on the Running of the Statute of Limitations until the Last Payment

The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice claims the statute of limitations for a criminal antitrust violation does not begin to run until the last payment is collected by a conspirator on a sale that was the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Shipping Executive Acquitted of Antitrust Charge

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On May 8, 2015, a jury in Puerto Rico acquitted Thomas Farmer (Farmer), the former vice president of price and yield management for Crowley Liner Services, Inc., of conspiring to suppress and eliminate competition in...more

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Criminal Agreements In Antitrust Prosecutions: Through A Looking Glass

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From a criminal defendant’s perspective, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland makes an apt point of reference in assessing the law of conspiracy in criminal antitrust cases....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

DOJ Verdict In Liquid Crystal Display Price Fixing Case Shows Juries Get It

Earlier this week, after an eight week trial, a jury in San Francisco convicted AU Optronics Corporation (“AUO”), a Taiwanese corporation, its U.S. subsidiary, AU Optronics Corporation of America (“AUOA”), and two of their...more

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