Antitrust

August 23, 2023 A proposed class action alleges Axon Enterprise has maintained an unlawful monopoly on the market for Tasers and body camera systems.

August 1, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims EssilorLuxottica and 48 other subsidiaries, manufacturers, retailers and fashion houses have conspired to artificially inflate the price of eyewear products by as much as 1000 percent.

June 19, 2023 A class action alleges a host of Atlantic City hotel and casino heavyweights have illegally conspired to fix, raise and stabilize hotel room prices.

May 3, 2023 Energizer Holdings and Wal-Mart face at least two class actions that allege the companies have artificially inflated prices for Energizer disposable battery products to above competitive levels.

April 4, 2023 A class action claims two major crop-protection product (CPP) manufacturers have unlawfully suppressed competition from generic producers, which has artificially inflated CPP prices and cost U.S. farmers millions each year.

March 20, 2023 A class action lawsuit claims Pacific Seafood has unlawfully fixed the prices paid to independent commercial crabbers for Dungeness crab caught in the Pacific Northwest.

March 15, 2023 A class action alleges Tesla has unlawfully monopolized, or attempted to monopolize, the market for replacement parts and repair services for its vehicles.

January 27, 2023 A who’s-who of hotel operators faces a class action that alleges they have illegally conspired to artificially inflate prices for rooms on the Las Vegas Strip.

December 13, 2022 A class action alleges a JetBlue and American Airlines "alliance" has eliminated competition between the two at the four largest airports nationwide and caused prices to increase for consumers.

December 7, 2022 Actelion Pharmaceuticals faces a class action that alleges the company has illegally schemed to raise the unit price and quantity dispersed of certain high blood pressure drugs.

December 2, 2022 A class action alleges the NCAA and its member schools have unlawfully conspired to fix the wages of certain college baseball coaches at zero, suppressing labor competition.

November 30, 2022 A class action alleges "anticompetitive agreements" between Disney and competitors in the live TV streaming market have caused the price of YouTube TV and other subscriptions to nearly double.

November 14, 2022 Eleven of the country’s largest meat processors have conspired to fix and depress the wages paid to employees at red meat processing plants nationwide, a class action alleges.

November 9, 2022 Apple and Amazon face a class action that alleges the retailers have worked together to eliminate or at least severely reduce the “competitive threat” posed by third-party merchants.

November 3, 2022 A class action alleges RealPage has aided a collection of lessors who have illegally agreed to artificially inflate the prices of student housing in college towns nationwide.

October 20, 2022 Five plaintiffs allege “a cartel” of lessors has for at least the past six years colluded to artificially raise the prices of multifamily residential real estate in the U.S. to above competitive levels.

August 1, 2022 Dairy Farmers of America faces a proposed class action over a series of allegedly anticompetitive actions in the Northeast market for raw Grade A milk.

July 29, 2022 Uber and Lyft face a proposed class action over their alleged practice of increasing customer prices while suppressing driver pay.

July 27, 2022 A class action alleges “anticompetitive behavior” on the part of IDEXX Labs has caused pet owners to pay artificially inflated prices for certain veterinary diagnostic tests.

July 19, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Apple has illegally monopolized the mobile wallet market by preventing consumers from using products capable of offering competing tap-and-pay solutions.

July 15, 2022 A class action Amazon has wielded minimum margin agreements with suppliers to prevent other online retailers from offering the same products Amazon sells at a lower price.

July 11, 2022 A class action alleges Meta Platforms has made false and misleading statements with regard to how many people see the digital ads sold by the company.

June 14, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Major League Baseball, all 30 teams, and Fanatics, Inc. have illegally wiped out competition in the third-party online marketplace for licensed apparel.

April 18, 2022 Google and Alphabet face a class action that alleges the tech giants have for years forced those who use their digital-mapping product APIs into a locked-in bundle of services before then hiking up the price.

April 5, 2022 A class action lawsuit alleges the two largest dairy cooperatives in the Southwest United States have illegally conspired for years to suppress the pay remitted to dairy farmers.

March 7, 2022 A lawsuit alleges CUSIP Global Services, S&P Global, FactSet Research Systems and the American Bankers Association have conspired to eliminate competition for the use of CUSIPs, an identification number system for securities.

January 18, 2022 LinkedIn faces a proposed class action over its alleged monopolization of the professional social networking market.

January 17, 2022 A class action alleges John Deere has monopolized the repair service market for its agricultural equipment by making critical software and tools inaccessible to farmers and independent repair shops.

January 12, 2022 A class action alleges Major League Baseball and all 30 teams have routinely and openly colluded to restrict and depress the wages and compensation paid to minor league players.

January 7, 2022 Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster face a class action over the alleged monopoly they hold over the primary and secondary ticket and concert promotion markets in the U.S.

December 16, 2021 A class action alleges a Raytheon Technologies division and other aerospace firms unlawfully agreed to restrain competition in the labor market in which they compete for employees.

November 18, 2021 A class action alleges Apple has engaged in an anticompetitive scheme to monopolize the aftermarket for iOS apps since it launched the first iPhone in 2007.

September 1, 2021 InterContinental Hotels Group faces a class action over its apparent mandate that franchisees use only certain vendors and suppliers for virtually all goods and services needed to maintain and operate their hotels.

August 9, 2021 Another class action alleges Takeda and Par have conspired to suppress competition in the generic drug market, this time for Colcrys (colchicine).

July 30, 2021 A proposed class action alleges violations of antitrust law by Amazon have harmed "hundreds of thousands of businesses" and even more consumers nationwide.

July 21, 2021 A lawsuit claims the operators of outpatient medical facilities entered into unlawful “no-poach” agreements designed to suppress competition among senior-level employees.

July 8, 2021 A class action claims big-name banks have engaged in a conspiracy to manipulate the final auction price for credit default swaps.

July 7, 2021 da Vinci robot-maker Intuitive Surgical faces an antitrust class action over its alleged monopoly control over the aftermarket for EndoWrist instruments.

July 1, 2021 A class action alleges Takeda and Par violated antitrust law when the two struck an agreement to keep the latter’s generic version of Amitiza off the market for up to six years.

June 30, 2021 Two pro MMA fighters allege UFC has maintained an unlawful monopoly in the market for live MMA contests and monopsony control over professional fighter services.

June 24, 2021 Merchants and consumers alike have been damaged by Amazon’s “referral fees,” which ultimately inflate the prices of goods, a class action says.

June 11, 2021 A class action alleges Amarin Pharma, BASF and a number of affiliates have engaged in a scheme to squash generic competition in the United States for Vascepa.

June 3, 2021 Financial heavy-hitters face a class action over an alleged years-long conspiracy to set and reset the interest rates of Variable Rate Demand Obligations issued by public entities in California.

May 7, 2021 A class action alleges Sony has established a monopoly in the sale of digital video games for the PlayStation console.

May 4, 2021 Align Technology faces a class action over an alleged anticompetitive scheme with which the Invisalign maker has supposedly attempted to maintain its monopoly position.

April 30, 2021 Valve faces an antitrust class action that alleges the company has used competition-suppressing conduct to monopolize the PC gaming market.

April 20, 2021 Three plaintiffs allege Health First has engaged in “pervasive and long-term exclusionary conduct” as a means to maintain and strengthen a monopoly in the market for acute care in Florida.

April 6, 2021 A class action alleges Scientific Games Corporation, SHFL Entertainment and Bally Technologies have unlawfully monopolized the market for automatic card shufflers used at casinos.

March 29, 2021 An Evanston, Illinois bookstore alleges Amazon.com and the Big Five publishers in the U.S. have conspired to constrict competition in the market for print trade books.

March 22, 2021 A lawsuit claims ACV Auctions, Sun Auto and an individual have used shill bidding to unlawfully drive up the prices of vehicles sold on an online auction platform.