“[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 personal freedoms.” U.S. v. Topco Associates, Inc., 405 U.S. 596, 610 (1972).
Unfortunately, individuals and businesses sometimes violate the rules of our market-based system to artificially inflate prices. Antitrust 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 violation in the pharmaceutical, entertainment, service rental, lumber, energy, and electronic products industries, among others.
If you believe you or your business may have been victimized by anticompetitive conduct, please contact us.
Wexler Wallace, together with co-counsel Branstetter Stranch & Jennings PLLC, filed a class action lawsuit against Astellas Pharma US, Inc. seeking damages and equitable relief under federal antitrust law and state antitrust and consumer fraud statutes for consumers and third-party payors (“Indirect Purchasers”) who have been forced to pay higher prices for the immunosuppressive tacrolimus drug, Prograf, and its generic equivalents, due to Astellas’ anticompetitive conduct. Read more.
Wexler Wallace is one of a multitude of law firms bringing this massive antitrust case against over twenty aircraft carriers that provide shipping services around the world. The class period for this price-fixing scheme runs from January 1, 2002 to the present. In essence, the action arises from the Defendants’ massive global conspiracy to fix or stabilize the prices of air freight shipping services. The complaint alleges that the Defendants and their co-conspirators acted in concert pursuant to a single, overarching conspiracy to artificially inflate the prices of shipping air cargo worldwide. Read more.
