Collusion and Price Fixing

HDD Suspension Assemblies Indirect Purchasers Antitrust Class Action

This is one of a number of antitrust class actions against companies that make hard disk drive (HDD) suspension assemblies sold in the US. The complaint alleges that the companies conspired to eliminate competition, fix prices, and allocate markets and it brings suit on behalf of indirect purchasers of the products.  Read more

Hard Disk Drive Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Class Action

Hard disk drives (HDDs) use a component called an HDD suspension assembly. The complaint for this class action alleges that a long list of HDD suspension assembly makers and suppliers conspired to fix prices and allocate markets for those components. The defendants include NHK Spring Co. Ltd.; NHK International Corporation; NAT Peripheral (Hong Kong) Co.,  Read more

All Nippon Airways Transpacific Antitrust Settlement

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Air Lines (JAL) are the final parties to settle in an antitrust class action about price-fixing and fuel surcharges on flights across the Pacific originating in the US. The complaint claimed that ANA and JAL agreed to fix prices on tickets and add fuel surcharges for travel between the  Read more

National Association of Realtors and MLS Control Antitrust Class Action

How did realtors manage to band together to take anticompetitive actions? The complaint for this class action alleges that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) banded together with four national real estate broker franchises—HomeServices of America, Inc., Keller Williams Realty, Inc., Realogy Holdings Corp., and Re/Max Holdings, Inc.—to set rules for buyer broker commissions. It  Read more

Caustic Soda Makers Anticompetitive Actions Class Action

How do you raise prices for a substance in a market with low margins, declining prices, and an oversupply—like the one for caustic soda a few years ago? According to the complaint for this antitrust class action, some makers decided to take concerted, anticompetitive measures, from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the present.  Read more

Silicone Wristband, Lanyard, and Button Antitrust Class Action

The complaint for this class action alleges that antitrust price-fixing in the business of selling and customizing the silicone wristbands for our favorite charities, the lanyards from which we hang our IDs and keys, and the pin buttons touting slogans or political candidates. Acording to the complaint, the market for these custom promotional products in  Read more

California Home Foreclosures Bid Rigging and Collusion Class Action

Plaintiff Wallace Francis, guardian ad litem for April Wagner brings this class action alleging bid rigging in the foreclosure sale of her home while she was incapable of managing her own affairs. Previously, in March 2014, defendants Michael A. Navone and Mohammed Rezaian pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of bid rigging in foreclosure sales,  Read more

Eggs and Egg Products Antitrust Settlement

This combined class action alleges that the many defendants illegally conspired to reduce the supply of eggs in the US domestic market, by means such as agreements to limit or dispose of hen flocks, a pretextual animal welfare program designed to reduce the egg supply, agreements to export eggs to remove them from the domestic  Read more

Lithium-Ion Battery Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that the defendents, including SONY, LG, Hitachi, Maxell and NEC, conspired to raise and fix the prices of cylindrical Li-Ion Cells for over ten years, resulting in overcharges to indirect purchasers of portable computers, camcorders, and power tools containing Li-Ion Cylindrical Batteries.  Read more

Glyburide Price Hike Class Action Lawsuit

            This class action lawsuit alleges that Heritage Pharmaceuticals conspired to raise prices of glyburide and made illegal agreements with co-conspirator manufactures to allocate customers in the glyburide market.   Read more