Tag: Price-Fixing
DOJ’s Kanter Warns Over Price-Fixing Algorithms & AI
Algorithms and artificial intelligence can facilitate price-fixing and companies that use programmatic tools may need to start training their AI to steer clear of...
Peru Fines Supermarkets For Turkey Price-Fixing
Peru's Commission for the Defense of Free Competition that they had sanctioned Cencosud Retail Perú, Hipermercados Tottus, Makro Supermayorista and Supermercados Peruanos in the...
New Class Action Suit On Milk Price-Fixing Filed In New Mexico
New Mexico dairies and cooperatives are embroiled in a federal class action antitrust lawsuit accusing two dairy cooperatives of “artificially depressing” prices for at...
Smithfield Foods Settles Pork Price-Fixing Suit
Smithfield Foods announced it would pay $83 million to settle a court case that involved direct-purchaser class claims involving multiple companies in the pork...
Judge To Approve $165M Capacitor Antitrust Settlement
A California federal judge was asked on Thursday to approve $165 million in new settlement agreements with the makers of an electronic component to...
Chicken Price-Fixing Suit Ends In Mistrail Again
The US Department of Justice has once again failed to prove price-fixing in the chicken industry. Now, before it tries for a third time,...
Sen. Warren Urges DOJ To Take On Price-Fixing
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat who has argued for the breakup of tech giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook, has urged the Justice...
StarKist Wants Price-Fixing Case Ruling Thrown Out Due Over Judge’s Stock...
Class certification decisions made by US District Judge Janis Sammartino should be thrown out, tuna company StarKist and its parent company Dongwon Industries argued...
Lawyers In Chicken Price-Fixing Case Seek $35M Payout
A plaintiffs' class of restaurants, grocery stores and other commercial outlets has asked a Chicago federal judge to award US$35 million in legal fees...
Fiat Chrysler Settles US Price-Fixing Suit
The US Justice Department (DOJ) on Thursday announced a $305 million civil settlement between Fiat Chrysler and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a...