Jonathan Cuneo testifies before the Maine Legislature Judiciary Committee on Bill addressing marketing of firearms to minors On May 17 2023, Jonathan Cuneo appeared before the Maine Legislature to give testimony on H.P 1085, An Act to Create a Civil Cause of Action for Persons Suffering Damages Arising from the Sale of Abnormally Dangerous Firearms. [...]
Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Foreign Commerce Denied in Hard Disk Drive Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Litigation On May 22, 2023, Judge Chesney denied in full Defendants NHK’s and TDK’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment Regarding Foreign Commerce, which sought dismissal of nearly all of the Class Plaintiffs’ claims, based on the Foreign Trade Antitrust [...]
Court denies petition to appeal CGL's successful class certification in Pork Litigation The Eighth Circuit has denied a petition by defendants to appeal CGL’s successful certification of a class composed of commercial food preparers in a lawsuit alleging anticompetitive conduct in the pork industry. The commercial food preparer class represented by CGL remains certified, and [...]
CGL Attorneys Join Distinguished Panelists at the American Economic Liberties Project Anti-Monopoly Summit On May 4, two CGL attorneys, Victoria Sims and Amanda Lewis, joined distinguished panelists and speakers, including FTC Chair Lina Khan, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and Senator Amy Klobuchar, at the American Economic Liberties Project Anti-Monopoly Summit, in Washington, DC. The [...]
LAW360: JBS Reaches $25M Beef Price Fixing Deal With Indirect Buyers "JBS USA Food Co. Has agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims filed by a class of indirect beef product purchasers accusing the meat processing giant of participating in a nationwide scheme to constrain the supply of beef products and drive up prices [...]
CGL's Charles Tiefer quoted and cited in New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg's complaint against Jim Jordan. The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. "There hasn’t been a [...]
Pork Antitrust Litigation – CGL Wins Certification of Food Preparer Class On March 29, 2023, CGL won certification of a damages class composed of commercial food preparers, such as restaurants, that purchased pork in 27 states and the District of Columbia along with a nationwide injunctive class in In re Pork Antitrust Litigation, No. 18-cv-1776. [...]
CGL settles monopolization case against Varsity Brands for $43.5 million. CGL has settled a Section 2 monopolization case against Defendants Varsity Brands, LLC, Varsity Spirit, LLC, Varsity Spirit Fashion & Supplies, LLC (collectively, “Varsity”), and U.S. All Star Federation, Inc. (“USASF”) for $43.5 million and filed preliminary approval papers today. This litigation concerns the All [...]
CGL announces proposed settlement in thread count case with Macy's for $10.5m. CGL announces that it has entered into an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit commenced in 2017 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The case is captioned Hawes, et al. v. Macy’s West Stores, Inc., Case No. 1-17-CV-00754 (DRC). [...]
Charles Tiefer Quoted in NY Times Article - G.O.P. Demands on Prosecutor in Trump Case Test Limits of Oversight Power WASHINGTON — The demand by House Republicans for information from a local prosecutor in New York about his criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump is pushing an already escalating fight over the scope [...]