In Stewart et al. v. Gogo Inc., Northern District of California Judge Edward M. Chen denied Gogo Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action, alleging that Gogo’s unfair long-term contracts with airlines created a monopoly. Plaintiffs allege Gogo carved out a dominant industry position to the detriment of consumers and the wider market space […]
Category Archives: Discover Issues
Court Orders Disclosure of Separate Criminal Case Documents in Antitrust MDL
December 19, 2013 – 2:52 pm
In In Re: Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation, Northern District of California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Panasonic Corp. to hand over documents used in a separate grand jury investigation that led Panasonic subsidiary Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. to plead guilty to antitrust charges and pay $10.7 million. The present case is a multidistrict price-fixing suit, […]
Court Denies UBS Executives’ Motion to Dismiss Charges Against Them
July 18, 2012 – 2:23 pm
In U.S. v. Ghavami, Southern District of New York Judge Kimba M. Wood denied a motion to dismiss part of an indictment against three former UBS AG executives over alleged fraud schemes and bid-rigging related to contracts in the municipal bond market. In their motion to dismiss, defendants argued that a five-year statute of limitations […]
Court Denies Blue Cross’ Motion to Compel Disclosure of Competitor and Consumer Interviews
July 2, 2012 – 4:46 pm
In United States v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Eastern District of Michigan Judge Mona K. Majzoub denied a motion to compel, filed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, seeking information the government collected in interviews with competitors and customers gathered while investing the case. In its suit, the government accuses Blue Cross […]
Blood Reagent Price-Fixing MDL Moves Forward
August 27, 2010 – 4:03 pm
E.D. PA Judge Jan Dubois denied defendant Immucor Inc. & Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. motion to dismiss on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to sufficiently allege an agreement. The judge cited the close timing of the defenants’ price increases for blood reagent; their cancellations of contracts with group purchasers; and […]
Urethane MDL Plaintiffs Order to Produce Data
February 2, 2010 – 11:42 am
District of Kansas Magistrate Judge James O’Hara ordered the plaintiffs in the urethane multi-district litigation to produce data about their sales that had been requested by the defendants. The judge agreed with defendants that the information was necessary to allow the defendants to respond to the conspiracy allegations by showing that the plaintiffs own information […]