17 results for 'cat:"Antitrust" AND cat:"Discovery"'.
J. Traum grants the newspaper's motion to exclude expert testimony that was to be made on behalf of another media company in support of its claims the newspaper breached the cooperation and quality provisions of a joint operating arrangement triggering this range of antitrust and contract claims and counterclaims. The paper provides no source that calls into question the expert's methods. The validity challenge can be pursued before the jury.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Traum , Filed On: March 31, 2024, Case #: 2:19cv1667, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Experts, discovery
J. Gilliam allows claims to proceed against LinkedIn from users who say the company uses its control over the professional networking market to force users to spend more on its "LinkedIn Premium Career" services. There is enough on the record at this stage to properly allege that the company has almost “no competitive check" against what kind of prices it can set for its premium services. As a result, the court is also lifting a previously issued stay on discovery so that the case can proceed to the next stage.
Court: USDC Northern District of California, Judge: Gilliam, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv237, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, discovery
J. Tharp partially grants a health care networking service’s motion to compel the production of documents from a number of pharmacies. The pharmacies allege the health care networking service has an illegal monopoly over e-prescription routing and patient eligibility transmission. The court compels the pharmacies to produce sales records of prescription medications to Michigan patients, but declines the networking service’s request for the pharmacies to produce a privilege log.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Tharp, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv6627, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Health Care, discovery
J. Friedman, upon remand from the D.C. Circuit, excludes certain exhibits in a group of purchasers of rail freight services' antitrust against railway companies. The D.C. Circuit determined that internal documents concerning interline movements are inadmissible.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Friedman, Filed On: March 4, 2024, Case #: 1:07mc489, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Transportation, discovery
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J. Kendall accepts, in this long-running multidistrict communications antitrust case, the court-appointed special master’s report and recommendation regarding pending motions over a collection of telecom companies’ privilege log entries. The suing businesses accuse the telecom companies of conspiring to artificially inflate the price of broadcast television spot advertisements. Against those telecom firms’ objections, the court accepts the special master’s finding that they “failed to meet their burden to tether ... documents to client confidences or responses to requests for legal advice.”
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kendall, Filed On: January 16, 2024, Case #: 1:18cv6785, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Communications, discovery
J. Durkin grants a Japanese investment firm’s motion to dismiss for the lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue in this antitrust suit brought by a class of consumers challenging T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. There is no ambiguity and colorable basis for personal jurisdiction over the investor, so jurisdictional discovery is not warranted. The court denied T-Mobile and the Japanese company’s motion to dismiss for a lack of antitrust standing, failing to properly allege direct or indirect evidence.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Durkin, Filed On: November 2, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv3189, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, discovery, Class Action
J. Coulson grants a pharmaceutical company’s leave to file a sur-rebuttal expert report in this antitrust dispute between a health association and a class of third-party payors who say the company schemed to raise prices for its pulmonary hypertension drug Tracleer. The health association and class’s cross-motion to strike the report is denied. The parties have 14 days to confer and propose submit a jointly proposed scheduling order.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Coulson, Filed On: October 27, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv3560, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, discovery, Class Action
J. Reiss grants Dairy Farmers of America's motion for summary judgment requesting the court to take judicial notice of prior litigations and news coverage of their activities. The class of farmers' motions and claims for allegedly conspiring to fix the prices of Grade A raw milk are denied but leave to file an amended complaint is granted.
Court: USDC Vermont, Judge: Reiss, Filed On: September 26, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv147, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Agriculture, antitrust, discovery
J. Docherty partially grants the former meat conglomerate employees' motions to quash subpoenas issued to them as part of ongoing multidistrict litigation premised on allegations of price-fixing. The plaintiffs in that litigation have sufficiently shown that the employees likely have relevant information on their phones, though discovery for two of the employees' phones is limited to periods starting at the dates they entered the positions they were in at the time of filing. A request for documents concerning communications regarding beef markets is narrowed to exclude text messages about meetings and communications without a clear purpose.
Court: USDC Minnesota, Judge: Docherty, Filed On: July 17, 2023, Case #: 0:23mc42, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, discovery
J. Albregts denies a hotel customer’s motion to appoint interim class counsel in this suit alleging certain Las Vegas hotels used a common third-party algorithm to artificially inflate hotel prices. There are no competing lawsuits or firms creating a need to clarify responsibility for class interest protection. The court stays discovery, but in finding that the parties’ discovery plan contains deficiencies, it denies the joint plan without prejudice.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Albregts, Filed On: July 11, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv140, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, discovery, Class Action