Price Fixing

NEWARK, N.J. -- McCarter & English LLP has elected nine new partners in its offices in Newark, Boston, Hartford and Wilmington, effective as of January 1, 2012. The new partners practice in a...

LOS ANGELES -- A lawsuit alleging Isagenix International, a multi-level marketing company based in Chandler, Arizona, intentionally interfered in and destroyed a competing diet supplement business, has been set for trial on March...

NEW YORK -- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) released its fourth quarter 2011 market commentary providing a review of the economy and the residential mortgage, commercial mortgage, asset-backed, corporate credit and treasury...

By Caroline Murray LONDON (ICIS)--European polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is likely to lengthen in 2012, partly because of new production capacities coming on-stream, but this could be tempered by a tight upstream paraxylene (PX)...

After years of on-again, off-again efforts to restore the deteriorating and outdated state Capitol building, lawmakers are getting ready to unveil a plan for a complete restoration of the 106-year-old Beaux Arts masterpiece....

HEADNOTE End of diamond empire Nicky Oppenheimer, dynastic head of the fabled diamond family, called the event a "bittersweet time". The sale of the family's stake in De Beers diamond company to Anglo...

THE FIRST major multidistrict litigation in the United States federal courts occurred following the filing of over 1,800 civil actions involving allegations that electrical equipment manufacturers conspired to fix prices in the 1960s....

Kitchen & Bath Design News recently posed the question to dealers and designers in the kitchen and bath industry. "Do you feel optimistic about your kitchen and bath firm's prospects for 2012? Why...

Company Overview Formed in June 2006 out of the merger between Greek dairy group Delta Holdings and the country's largest croissant and snacks maker, Chipita International, Vivartia is one of one of the...

In a free-market system, a decrease in prices usually stimulates demand. In an unusual twist, a group of companies in the construction industry is raising prices, citing declining demand as the reason. On...

NEW YORK -- Labaton Sucharow LLP announced today that Plaintiffs have reached a new settlement in In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1775, bringing the total in partial settlements...

Plaintiffs suing a worldwide distributor of diamonds for price-fixing were not required to show that each class member had a "viable" claim in order to satisfy the requirements for class certification, the en...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Joseph R. Saveri of the national plaintiff's law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion today...

HEADNOTE Plans Rebuild to Boost Splendor of Laguna Perch LUXURY HOMES A Texas business executive purchased a home in Emerald Bay in Laguna Beach for $6.7 million. Roger K. Bower is the founder...

Ocean carrier Horizon Lines Inc. will pay $13.75 million to customers who brought a class-action lawsuit resulting from a longrunning battle over price-fixing on the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico cargo shipping route. The Nov....

A BASF tank HOUSTON (ICIS)--A US judge approved on Monday BASF's proposal to pay $51m (€38m) to settle allegations that it fixed isocyanates prices, leaving Dow Chemical as the last producer fighting the...

NEW YORK -- Labaton Sucharow LLP announced today that Plaintiffs have reached partial settlements in In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1775, that now total over $462 million. Plaintiffs'...

A new amendment recently passed by the U.S. Senate may be a golden ticket for Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences, but could be a lead weight on local defense contractors. The amendment, sponsored...

The global crackdown on alleged auto supplier price fixing has expanded again, with an additional criminal indictment issued last week and a new kind of class-action lawsuit pitting suppliers against other suppliers and...