Reversing the district court’s summary judgment ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided that a jury could reasonably find that publication paper makers conspired to fix prices. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that ATM customers lacked standing to challenge inter-bank fees because they were indirect purchasers and did not pay the allegedly fixed fees.
Other antitrust developments of note included the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that the filed rate doctrine did not bar dairy farmers from bringing unfair competition law claims asserting that federally ordered raw milk prices were improperly suppressed and the Department of Justice’s rearrangement of reciprocal marketing agreements between a telecommunications company and several cable companies.
Horizontal Price Fixing
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