The Federal Aviation Act pre-empts state laws that "relate[] to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." The statute thus bars state law price-fixing claims against your American Airlineses, your U.S. Airwayses, your Virgin Americas, and — yes — even your Air Gumbos and your go!s.
But what about our foreign flying friends at
Got non-fat dry milk?
You'll just have to trust Blawgletter that the U.S. Department of Agriculture sets minimum prices for milk producers.
Unless you want to read the 10-page SUMMARY of the process in Carlin v. DairyAmerica, Inc., No. 10-16448, slip op. at 8731-41 (9th Cir. Aug. 7, 2012).
Go ahead. We'll wait.
The Second Circuit today came out with rulings in two big commercial cases.
The first involved a "collateralized debt obligation", the second a cartel that the plaintiffs alleged fixed prices for "publication paper". Plaintiffs won both times.
The CDO case stemmed from a $60 million purchase in December 2006 by a German bank, Bayerische
On this Fourth of July, let us think of our patriot farmers. Also our domestic glass-blowers, soap-makers, even people who produce feed for our critters. For all use potash — "mineral and chemical salts that are rich in potassium". And all of them fell victim to a 600 percent price increase that resulted from a
Talk about goofy.
Today's WSJ — The Wall Street Journal — includes a column that gets antitrust law so wrong you wonder why the paper's pundits, who include those who write the official editorials, bother.
The column in question takes aim at the U.S. Department of Justice's case that calls Apple and five book publishers
Top legal writer Alison Frankel wrote a first class piece on Rambus's stunning loss this week of a price-fixing case against two chip makers that, ahem, had confessed to fixing prices. See .
Rambus accused Hynix and Micron ruined a sweet deal with Intel, which agreed to build Rambus technology into Intel chips. Micron and
Do you text? You know — that typey thing you do with your mobile phone. Choose the number, key in the words, hit send and — presto — the text goes over the wireless network to your best friend's Storm/iPhone/Android/Pixon/i8510/Touch HD/n85/Renoir.
Easy, right? But not cheap.
Which fact seems to have prompted the filing of
Six of the world's biggest air cargo freight-forwarders have signed up to plead guilty to participating in international price-fixing conspiracies and to pay fines totaling just north of $50 million, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice disclosed today.
Freight forwarders serve as the middle persons between outfits that have cargo to ship and carriers that can
China Airlines, Ltd., a Taiwan carrier, has agreed with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to plead guilty to price-fixing charges for air cargo services to and from the United States and to pay a $40 million fine, the DOJ announced on Monday.
The deal will bring the total fines the DOJ
The Supreme Court of California ruled last week that the Golden State's antitrust statute, the Cartwright Act, allows an award of overcharge damages to people who don't buy directly from a price-fixer. Clayworth v. Pfizer, Inc., No. S166435 (Cal. July 12, 2010).
The case involved pharmacies that alleged price-fixing by drug manufacturers. The