SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area plaintiffs attorney Joseph Saveri has launched price-fixing allegations against more than a dozen electronics manufacturers over tiny electrical components found in nearly all household technology. Among the ...
Tags: Suit, Price-Fixing, Electrical, Electronics
SAN FRANCISCO – Panasonic, Sanyo, Hitachi et al. fixed prices on “aluminum and tantalum electrolytic capacitors” for circuit boards for nearly a decade, Chip-Tech claims in Federal Court; click headline for defendants. ...
Tags: Capacitor, Price, Electrical, Electronics
The raid of electronic capacitor companies in Japan this week is a further indication that antitrust enforcers may be pursuing a worldwide cartel involving the small, but ubiquitous product, antitrust attorneys said. “This has the ...
Tags: raid, Electrical, Electronics
Two Internet resellers of UPC barcodes used by retailers for price scanning and inventory purposes, have settled charges that they violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by inviting competitors to join in a collusive scheme to raise the ...
The National Retail Federation formally filed an appeal of a controversial antitrust lawsuit settlement covering credit card swipe fees, asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court’s ruling. NRF Senior ...
Tags: card industry, Textile
Chinese consumers can expect higher dairy prices in December because of a shrinking supply of raw milk from the country's fragmented milk farms. Most domestic dairy companies put up prices last week, ranging from five to 20 percent. This ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Dairy Products
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp announced that it reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn in mid-November in connection with a price-fixing cartel. ThyssenKrupp has agreed to pay damages to the German rail operator. According to ...
Tags: Cartel Case, Mineral
The arrival of cotton at ginneries in Pakistan increased by 11.02 percent year-on-year to 7.606 million bales as on November 1, 2013, according to the consolidated statement of cotton arrivals this season released by the Pakistan Cotton ...
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that an additional nine Japan-based auto parts producers, along with two ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Mineral
Hong Kong has had enough of mainland mothers emptying the region's shelves of imported baby formula. The government there will fine people up to US$64,000 and potentially throw them in jail for up to two years if they're caught carrying too ...
Tags: Foreign Dairy, baby formula
The China Automobile Dealers Association is beginning an investigation into the pricing of foreign car brands in China. "We are collecting data to investigate the price structure of imported vehicles in a bid to find out what is behind ...
Tags: Foreign Automakers
Customers who bought e-books during a period of alleged price-fixing between Apple and five major publishers may be eligible to compensation payments. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has announced ...
China's top price regulator has imposed penalties on a local gold and jewelry industrial association and five jewelry firms in Shanghai for price-fixing practices, China News Service reported Monday. The National Development and Reform ...
Tags: Gold Retailers
Five large US book publishers have openly objected to new restrictions outlined by the US government after Apple was found guilty of conspiring to artificially raise e-book prices. After having already found Apple to have "conspired to ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Apple Price Fixing
China has fined six baby milk formula companies a total of 670 million yuan (US$108 million) for price-fixing, following an anti-trust investigation launched in early July, the country's top economic planner announced Wednesday morning. ...
Tags: Milk Formula, Price-Fixing