Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed an antitrust lawsuit challenging several hotel chains’ use of AI software to suggest allegedly supra-competitive room rates. Dai v. SAS...more
A clear case of horizontal price fixing. Private antitrust plaintiffs are increasingly bringing cases alleging that the use of a common, commercially available pricing algorithm by multiple competitors constitutes price...more
Price-fixing agreements among horizontal competitors raise significant antitrust concerns under Section 1 of the Sherman Act....more
With over 50 Japanese executives charged and more than 30 Japanese companies having faced criminal charges and having paid some $4 billion in fines since 2010, you would expect that all Japanese companies and their executives...more