When antitrust lawyer Joseph Saveri left Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein earlier this year to found his own small firm, he held onto a price-fixing case against a group of leading chemical companies. He must be glad he did, because the litigation has now survived a key test and is moving toward trial.
In an order handed down Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett in Baltimore certified a nationwide class of individuals and businesses that purchased titanium dioxide directly from E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Huntsman International LLC, Kronos Worldwide Inc. and Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Inc. between 2002 and the present. The class also includes purchasers of titanium dioxide from an alleged co-conspirator, Tronox Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009.
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