Antitrust

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. [UPDATE]

January 13, 2022 A wave of class actions alleges a cadre of major players in the aerospace engineering industry illegally agreed over nearly a decade to not hire each other’s skilled workers.

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 11, 2022 A lawsuit claims 16 private universities reduced financial aid in a manner that stifled competition and caused some students to overpay for their education.

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 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. [UPDATE]

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.

March 15, 2021 A class action claims nCino, Live Oak Bank and Apiture have for years had an agreement not to hire each other's workers in the Wilmington, NC area.

March 5, 2021 Martin Shkreli and his former companies face an antitrust class action over their alleged manipulation of the price of Daraprim.

February 8, 2021 A class action alleges Geisinger Health and Evangelical Community Hospital have unlawfully conspired to not hire, or "poach," each other's healthcare workers in Central Pennsylvania.

February 5, 2021 A class action claims more than a dozen crop input manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers conspired to artificially increase and fix the prices of seeds, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.

January 27, 2021 A class action claims the rules, procedures and policies set by the National Association of Realtors amount to anticompetitive restraints that reduce price competition in the markets for buyer agent services.

January 22, 2021 Surgical Care Affiliates has been hit with a class action over its apparent “no-poach” agreements geared to restrict competition among senior-level employees.

December 16, 2020 A class action aims to stop the enforcement of an allegedly "exclusionary and anti-competitive" project labor agreement between Plum Borough and the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council.

December 9, 2020 Facebook faces an antitrust class action that alleges the social media giant has wielded harvested user data and "acquire, copy and kill" tactics to squash competition.

October 27, 2020 A Washington D.C. guided tour company alleges in a class action that Google has come to have monopoly control over the online advertising market through anti-competitive conduct.

October 21, 2020 Google faces an antitrust class action that claims it's wielded "restrictive agreements" to box competitors out of the app store market for Android devices.

October 13, 2020 A class action alleges Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb have for years conspired to restrain the U.S. market for HIV treatment drugs, allowing the companies to overcharge direct buyers.

October 9, 2020 An antitrust class action alleges Apple engaged in a series of anti-competitive acts upon its launch of the "Apple Arcade" subscription-based mobile gaming service.

September 16, 2020 A class action alleges AbbVie, Allergan and Forest Labs conspired to suppress market competition for Bystolic, a blockbuster high blood pressure treatment drug.

August 18, 2020 Google faces an antitrust class action alleging “contractual and technological barriers” leave consumers and app developers with no options other than to go through the Google Play Store.

July 9, 2020 A class action alleges CVS Pharmacy has unlawfully required those filling opioid pain reliever prescriptions in Calif. to also buy opioid overdose reversal medication.

July 2, 2020 Three companies face a class action alleging they conspired to artificially inflate prices for single phone calls made by prison and jail inmates to those on the outside.

July 1, 2020 Vitol and SK Energy face a lawsuit over an alleged "illegal scheme" that artificially inflated retail prices for gasoline and alkylate blending components in California.

June 10, 2020 The world's largest meatpackers face an antitrust class action over an alleged conspiracy to limit domestic meat supplies and thereby artificially inflate prices.

May 27, 2020 A class action alleges Varsity Brands is behind an "exclusionary scheme" with which its gained monopoly power over the markets for All-Star cheerleading competitions and apparel.

April 23, 2020 A lawsuit claims the "Inclusive Access" product offered by major publishers through on-campus bookstores has caused students to pay higher prices for college course materials.

March 3, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Forest Laboratories, LLC has engaged in an “anticompetitive scheme” through which the pharmaceutical company has been able to charge inflated prices for dementia drug Namenda IR.

February 24, 2020 A class action alleges Jeld-Wen and Onex Corp., among other competition-suppressing conduct, engaged in a conspiracy to artificially increase or maintain the price of interior molded doors.

December 17, 2019 A class action case alleges R.S.P. Express, NA Truck Repair and the companies' owners defrauded truck owner-drivers of contractually agreed-upon wages.

October 25, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that The Estates LLC and several co-conspirators have engaged in a “bid-rigging” scheme to manipulate foreclosure sales in North Carolina.

October 2, 2019 A group of primarily Norwegian fisheries is facing a proposed class action that alleges the companies conspired to drive up the prices of farm-raised Atlantic salmon in an “unprecedented and unjustified” scheme that resulted in record profits.