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$20 Million Settlement Domino Falls In High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation, With More On The Brink

By David Golden The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted the motion of plaintiffs in In Re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation听蹿辞谤 of class action settlements with Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Intuit for $20 million. The court鈥檚 final approval of these settlements follows the recent of another, much larger, proposed settlement in the same lawsuit...

European Commissioner Rebuffs German CEO鈥檚 Criticisms Of Google Search Engine Settlement

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Michael Petrides The European Commission鈥檚 Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, is the EC from charges that its proposed settlement with Google concerning search engine practices would permit Google to expand its dominant market position. Commissioner Alumina鈥檚 defense of the proposed settlement joins a debate with Matthias...

Two Calls Go Against The NCAA In Student-Athletes鈥� Name and Likeness Litigation

By David Scupp The NCAA was on the losing end of two orders entered this week in the In re NCAA Student Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied the NCAA鈥檚 motion for leave to file a motion for partial reconsideration of the court鈥檚 order denying the NCAA鈥檚 motion for summary judgment on antitrust claims of current and former...

DOJ And FTC Will Discuss Whether Bundled Discounts Are A Bundle Of Antitrust Trouble Or A Bundle Of Joy For Consumers

By Ankur Kapoor[1] The Federal Trade Commission (鈥淔TC鈥�) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice will attempt to unravel the antitrust pros and cons of bundled discounts and other conditional-pricing practices in a one-day on June 23, 2014. Bundled discounts, which are discounts offered for the purchase of a 鈥渂undle鈥� of goods or services, exist in many markets.聽 The...

The NBA Constitution Might Well Block Donald Sterling From Challenging A Forced Sale Of His Clippers In Court

By Jeffery I. Shinder and David Scupp Donald Sterling is going to find the NBA constitution a major roadblock if he attempts to fight in court the NBA鈥檚 decision to seek his ouster as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Yesterday, we analyzed the antitrust implications of the NBA鈥檚 decision to respond forcefully to Sterling鈥檚 recently reported offensive and racially charged comments.聽 In addition to...

Can The NBA Force A Sale Of Sterling's Clippers Without Running Afoul Of The Antitrust Laws?

By Jeffery I. Shinder and David Scupp

We applaud the NBA for the firm stance it took against racism, which we believe should have no place in our country. 聽Having said that, we note that some have suggested that Donald Sterling may file an antitrust lawsuit to maintain his grip on the Clippers, or to gain some leverage to get full value for the team in a forced sale.聽 Notwithstanding our views on his conduct, we...

Tech Heavyweights Settle Wage-Fixing Fight For $324 Million

By David Golden Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, and Intel have an antitrust class action lawsuit brought by software engineers in the high tech industry for a reported . The lawsuit, , alleged that the four companies (along with Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm) agreed to refrain from 鈥減oaching鈥� each other鈥檚 employees, a common practice in...

Sixth Circuit Pulls Plug on Merging Hospital鈥檚 Weakened Firm Defense

By Marlene Koury The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has a Federal Trade Commission (鈥淔TC鈥�) order unwinding a merger of two Ohio hospitals that unsuccessfully sought to breathe life into a 鈥渨eakened firm defense.鈥� In a , a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit denied ProMedica鈥檚 petition to overturn a Federal Trade Commission ruling, which ordered ProMedica to...

Barclays Settles Second LIBOR Mis-Selling Case

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Natalia Mikolajczyk Barclays confirmed on Friday that it has settled another case alleging that it mis-sold LIBOR-tied derivative products. The lawsuit was filed by Domingos Da Silva Teixeira (DST), a family-owned construction and property company based in Braga, Portugal. As reported by the Financial Times, DST alleged that the British bank engaged in...

Credit Card Issuers Defeat Claims They Conspired To Use Arbitration to Block Class Actions

By Owen Glist American Express, Chase, and Discover have in a bench trial of a class action charging that the nation鈥檚 largest credit card issuers illegally agreed to prevent cardholders from using class actions to sue them. While Judge William H. Pauley III of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of the defendants on Thursday, he also indicated the...