John Carter Brown Library on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Credit: wolterke/Adobe Stock 'Substantive Deficiencies': Judge Grants Big Law Motion Dismissing Ivy League Price-Fixing Claims
"The deficiencies in the Complaint that are the basis for granting the motion to dismiss are substantive in nature," U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson wrote in the court order, "and nothing in the plaintiff's papers suggests that they could amend the Complaint to overcome these substantive deficiencies."
October 11, 2024 at 05:16 PM
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Antitrust
What You Need to Know
- U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson dismissed the class action accusing the Ivy League schools of price-fixing.
- Wilmer, Morgan Lewis, Skadden, King & Spalding, Jenner & Block, Sullivan & Cromwell, Crowell & Moring, Hogan Lovells and Covington & Burling defended the Ivy League schools successfully.
- Berger Montague, Freedman Normand Friedland and Zeisler & Zeisler represented the plaintiffs.
Several Am Law 100 firms helped Ivy League universities prevail in an antitrust class action accusing the elite Division I conference members of failing to award athletic scholarships and compensate college athletes in violation of the Sherman Act.
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