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Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

First Appellate Ruling on Algorithmic Pricing: What the Ninth Circuit Said Versus What It Did

In Gibson v. Cendyn Group, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first federal court of appeals to evaluate an antitrust claim based on algorithmic pricing. The plaintiffs-appellants brought suit under...more

Jones Day

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Class Certification Standards in Antitrust Appeal

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The Ninth Circuit approved use of statistical analysis that relies on averaging but reversed class certification because the district court failed to resolve whether more than a de minimis number of putative class members...more

Baker Donelson

10th Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Antitrust Case Against Health Insurer

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On May 31, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff's claims in Bristow Endeavor Healthcare v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association et al., handing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, and its...more

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NCAA’s System of Amateurism

Former UCLA basketball star and NCAA champion Ed O’Bannon was the lead plaintiff in a 2009 class action lawsuit that was the first serious challenge to the lifeblood of the NCAA’s very existence: all of its players are unpaid...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Second Circuit Affirms Ruling Against Apple in E-book Price-Fixing Case

We have previously posted about United States v. Apple, Inc., a blockbuster trial that ended with Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York concluding that Apple had conspired with five publishing companies to...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Preserving Pedigree: The Fifth Circuit Reverses Lower Court's Finding of Antitrust Conspiracy Involving Quarter Horse Association...

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In a closely watched case out of a Texas federal court, the Fifth Circuit recently reversed the district court and found that the evidence was insufficient to show that the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) unlawfully...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

When can an organization conspire with itself?

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week reversed a jury verdict and rendered judgment for American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) in a much-contested antitrust case about AQHA’s ban of cloned horses. The...more

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