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As our Supreme Court has said, antitrust laws “are as important to the preservation of economic freedom and our free-enterprise system as the Bill of Rights is to the protection of our fundamental freedoms.” U.S. v. Topco Associates, Inc., 405 U.S. 596, 610 (1972).

Unfortunately, individuals and businesses sometimes flaunt the rules of our market-based system to gain unfair advantage over others. This type of conduct can take the form of illegally-maintained monopolies, price fixing, the exchange of competitive information, patent abuse and other forms of unfair competition.

Wexler Wallace has been a leader in private antitrust enforcement, bringing a wide variety of class action cases to the state and federal courts. Wexler Wallace’s cases have addressed antitrust violations in the pharmaceutical, entertainment, service rental, lumber, energy, and electronic products industries, among others.  

Currently, Wexler Wallace is engaged in a number of antitrust class actions intended to stem the spiraling costs of health care.  For example, Wexler Wallace is Co-Lead Counsel in cases challenging pharmaceutical companies’ anticompetitive efforts to delay entry of less expensive generic drugs, a practice which  damages consumers, insurance companies and health and welfare funds that have no choice but to over pay for the drugs.  Similarly, Wexler Wallace is Co-Lead Counsel for hospitals, pharmacies and individuals who have been forced to pay higher monopoly prices to a large multinational medical supply and device company for hypodermic needles and related products.   

In another antitrust case, Wexler Wallace is  Co-Lead Plaintiffs’ Counsel in twenty-two regional class actions against a global media and entertainment company, consolidated in federal court in California.  Plaintiffs allege that, through a series of mergers valued at nearly $20 billion, the company has built a monopolistic, multimedia empire that has raised prices for tickets to rock concerts to levels much higher than what they should be. 

To find out more about these cases and Wexler Wallace’s other antitrust litigation, click on the links to the left. If you believe you or your business may have been victimized by an antitrust violation, please complete our Online Form. One of our attorneys will promptly respond to your inquiry