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		<title>Marsh &amp; McLennan Executives&#8217; Convictions Overturned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 3, 2010, the Justice Yates (the trial judge) overturned his decision after a bench trial convicting William Gilman and Edward McNenny of violating the Donnolly Act (New York&#8217;s antitrust statute) for rigging bids on insurance contracts.  According to the New York Times, he did so based on &#8220;newly discovered  contradictory statements made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=266</link>
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		<title>District Denies Twombly Motion in In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the United States District for the Eastern District of Michigan denied a motion to dismiss the Direct Purchasers&#8217; Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint in In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litig., MDL 1952 (Opinion).  It held, &#8220;Plaintiffs’ CAC contains enough factual content to plausibly suggest that these Defendants participated in a nationwide conspiracy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=259</link>
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		<title>Watershed Supreme Court Decision: Rule 23 Requires Class Actions To Go Forward Even Though State Law Mandates Otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court held today that district courts must follow Fed.R.Civ. 23 in class actions alleging violations of state law even though the state statute prohibits prosecution of the claim as a class action.  In Shady Grove Orthopedic Assoc. v. Allstate Insurance Co., No. 08-1008, 2010 WL 1222272 (Mar. 31, 2010), the Court held that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Resale Price Maintenance Is a Per Se Violation of California Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 23, 2010, the California Attorney General entered into a consent decree with Dermaquest, Inc., which prohibits Dermaquest from engaging in resale price maintenance.  Specifically, the order enjoins Dermaquest from requiring resellers to charge a specified price or to increase their prices.  The action was brought under the Cartwright Act and the Unfair Competition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Wild Law Group PLLC Named Interim Lead Counsel for the Indirect Purchasers Classes in Two Multidistrict Litigations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild Law Group PLLC (&#8220;WLG&#8221;) has been named interim lead and liaison counsel for the indirect purchaser class in In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litig., MDL No. 1952 and interim lead counsel for the indirect purchaser class in In re Dairy Farmers of America Antitrust Litig., MDL No. 2031.  The WLG attorneys (Matthew S. Wild, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Bid Rigging Charges Dismissed Against Remaining Marsh Executives at New York Attorney General&#8217;s Request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 19, 2009, the New York Attorney General&#8217;s motion to dismiss the charges arising from alleged bid rigging of insurance policies against Thomas T. Green, Jr. and William L. Burnie (former Marsh executives) and Geri Mandel (a former Zurich executive) was granted by Justice James Yates.  New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sought dismissal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=230</link>
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		<title>SRAM Indirect Purchasers Obtain Certification of 27 State Damages Subclasses and a Nationwide Injunctive Relief Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 25, 2009, the court in In re Static Random Access Memory Antitrust Litig., No. C 07-01819 CW, 2009 WL 4263524 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 25, 2009), certified 28 indirect purchaser classes – one nationwide class for injunctive relief under section 16 of the Clayton Act and 27 separate indirect purchaser damages classes under the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=229</link>
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		<title>41 State Attorneys General Ask Congress to Prohibit Resale Price Maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In letters dated October 27, 2009 (State AG Letter re HR 3190; State AG Letter re S 148), 41 state attorneys general wrote to Congress asking them to overrule Leegin Creative Leather Product, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007).  In Leegin, the Supreme Court held that resale price maintenance &#8212; the practice in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Three Former Marsh Executives Acquitted of Donnelly Act Violations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Peiser, Greg Doherty and Kathleen Drake, former Marsh executives, were acquitted after an 11-month bench trial before Justice James Yates of violating New York&#8217;s antitrust law &#8212; the Donnelly Act.  They were acquitted of bid-rigging in connection with the sale of insurance policies.   As you may recall (and discussed in the February 22, 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=224</link>
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		<title>Packaged Ice Indirect Purchasers Assert Their Rights As Victims in the Prosecution of Arctic Glacier and Its Executives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Levitt &#38; Kaizer, on behalf of the class of indirect purchasers in In re Packaged Ice Antitrust Litig., MDL No. 1952 and the individual class representatives, asserted today the class&#8217; rights as victims under the Crime Victims Rights Act (18 U.S.C. 3771) in connection with the criminal prosecution of Arctic Glacier and its former executives.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=221</link>
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