Tag: Price-Fixing
Suit Claims Visa, MasterCard Are Fixing Prices On Square Fees
Visa and MasterCard are facing a new, proposed class action from small business owners who allege the credit card giants conspired with banks to...
Appeals Court Hears Former Bumble Bee CEO Claim Of Judicial Error
Former Bumble Bee Foods President and CEO Chris Lischewski formally appealed his conviction for leading a tuna price-fixing conspiracy in front of a three-judge...
Another US Chicken Producer Charged With Price-Fixing
Claxton Poultry Farms has been indicted in Colorado on charges of price-fixing broiler chickens produced for sale to restaurants and grocery stores, the US...
Tyson Settles Turkey Price-Fix Case With $4.6M Deal
Tyson Foods has agreed to pay US$4.62 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the company with conspiring with competitors to fix the price...
Claxton Poultry Farms Indicted For Fixing Prices
A federal grand jury in Denver, Colorado, returned an indictment charging Norman W. Fries from Claxton Poultry Farms (Claxton), with participating in a nationwide...
DOJ Indicts Broiler Chicken Producer For Price Fixing & Bid Rigging
A federal grand jury in Denver, Colorado, returned an indictment charging Norman W. Fries, dba Claxton Poultry Farms (Claxton), headquartered in Claxton, Georgia, with...
Tyson To Settle Turkey Price-Fixing Case
Tyson Foods has reached a settlement in principle of antitrust claims over its alleged role in an industrywide scheme to inflate the price of...
Former Bumble Bee VPs Involved In Price-Fixing Avoid Prison Time
Two ex-Bumble Bee Foods executives who pled guilty to price-fixing avoided prison Wednesday, April 28, where sentenced by a California federal judge to probation.
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9th Circuit Decertifies Tuna Price-Fixing Classes
Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday, April 6, when the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery...
Romania’s Regulator Fines Six Airport Restaurants For Price Fixing
Romania's competition authority announced on Wednesday, March 24, it fined six companies providing food and beverage within Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport with a...
