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In re Microsoft I-V Cases

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Education Law
Final approval of a billion dollar settlement agreement reached in consolidated class actions brought under the Cartwright Act and the Unfair...

In re Automobile Antitrust Cases I and II

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Order granting nonresident defendants' motions to quash service of summons is affirmed because the California long-arm statute does not reach the...

Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Transportation
Grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-airline in an antitrust case involving allegations of predatory tactics in specific geographical...

Big Sky Excavating, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Communications Law, Government Law, Public Utilities
In an class action challenging legislation that provided for the deregulation of telecommunication services as being unconstitutional special...

Eddins v. Redstone

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence
In a class action alleging antitrust and price discrimination violations under California law involving revenue-sharing agreements between movie...

In re Universal Service Fund Telephone Billing Practice Litig.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Defendant's interlocutory appeal from an order of the district court denying defendant's motion to compel arbitration and stay in a multi-district...

Spirit Airlines v. Northwest

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-airline in an antitrust case involving allegations of predatory tactics in specific geographical...

RLH Indus., Inc. v. SBC Communications, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law
The commerce clause does not bar application of California antitrust law to out-of-state anticompetitive conduct that causes injury in California.

Care Heating & Cooling, Inc. v. American Standard, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Where plaintiff failed to show a per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and failed to state a claim under the rule of reason analysis, the...

US v. Dairy Farmers of Am. Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Contracts, M&A
Summary judgment against the government's claim that defendant violated the Clayton Act is reversed where the district court erred in failing to...