These cases arise out of the energy crisis of 2000 2002. Plaintiffs (retail buyers of natural gas) allege that Defendants (natural gas traders) manipulated the price of natural gas by reporting false information to price indices published by trade publications and engaging in wash sales. Plaintiff...   MORE>>

Petitioners, Comcast Corporation and its subsidiaries, allegedly cluster their cable television operations within a particular region by swapping their systems outside the region for competitor systems inside the region. Respondents, named plaintiffs in this class-action antitrust suit, claim ...   MORE>>

Several years ago, Appellee Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) began investigating a settlement between Appellant AbbVie Products LLC, then known as Solvay Pharmaceuticals ( Solvay ), and several other pharmaceutical companies. The settlement, the FTC believed, violated the antitrust laws beca...   MORE>>

This case is one of many arising out of the collapse of the market for auction rate securities in early 2008. Plaintiffs in this consolidated action seek relief on behalf of two large putative classes one whose members bought auction rate securities and one whose members issued them. Defendants, w...   MORE>>

Plaintiff/appellant Sunbeam Television Corporation (Sunbeam) appeals the district court s judgment granting partial summary judgment in favor of defendant/appellee Nielsen Media Research, Inc. (Nielsen), dismissing Sunbeam s antitrust claims under Section Two of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 2, ...   MORE>>

We address for the first time the use of cy pres distributions in class action settlements. The term cy pres is derived from the Norman French expression cy pres comme possible, which means as near as possible. Democratic Cent. Comm. v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Comm n, 84 F...   MORE>>

Under Georgia s Hospital Authorities Law (Law), political subdivisions may create special-purpose public entities called hospital authorities to provide for the operation and maintenance of needed health care facilities in the several counties and municipalities of th[e] state. The Law permits aut...   MORE>>

The district court has certified to us pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1292(b) the question whether the application of California antitrust law to claims against defendants based on purchases that occurred outside California would violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution. Beca...   MORE>>

Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Jed S. Rakoff, Judge, dismissing, for lack of standing and failure to state an Anti- Terrorism Act claim, see 18 U.S.C. 2331 et seq., against bank for facilitating terrorism by transferring U.S. curre...   MORE>>

Appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Deborah A. Batts, Judge), granting Defendants- Appellees motions to dismiss the amended complaint. We conclude that Plaintiff- Appellant Gatt Communications, Inc., lacks antitrust standing to b...   MORE>>