Tag: Price Fixing
US: Banks win Mexican Bond price-fixing suit dismissal
A US judge on Monday, September 30, dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against several large banks for allegedly rigging the market for Mexican...
US: StarKist ordered to pay $100 million criminal fine
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered StarKist. to pay a $100 million fine in a canned tuna price-fixing conspiracy involving three companies.
The...
Switzerland: Construction cartels fined millions over price fixing
The Federal Competition Commission (Comco) has wrapped up its last two investigations into an illegal price-fixing cartel in the construction industry in the southeastern...
Russia: Samsung fined for price fixing
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has been slapped with a fine by the Russian antitrust body for violating the nation’s fair trade law.
Russia’s...
US: Judge dismisses antitrust suits against pork companies
On Thursday, August 8, a federal judge in Minneapolis dismissed antitrust lawsuits accusing several US pork companies of conspiring to limit supply in order...
US: Tuna price-fixing case get class action status
Plaintiffs suing the Big Three tuna companies—Bumble Bee Foods, StarKist, and Chicken of the Sea—over alleged price fixing among the competitors have been granted...
US: Japanese manufacturer pleads guilty to price-fixing in disk drives
NHK Spring, a Japanese manufacturer of suspension assemblies used in hard disk drives, has agreed to plead guilty for its role in a global...
EU: Regulators seek to help victims calculate cartel harm
Victims of cartels may find it easier to seek damages from companies guilty of price fixing after European Union antitrust regulators released on Monday...
US: E-Commerce Company pleads guilty to antitrust charge
Gennex pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States. Gennex Media’s president, Akil...
US: Kansas secures reimbursement in natural gas price fixing suit
A price-fixing lawsuit filed by a Wichita aviation company and other natural gas customers that climbed to the US Supreme Court resulted in recovery...
