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IN RE: LITHIUM ION BATTERIES ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Case Number:
4:13-md-02420
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Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action, Multi-district Litigation
Judge:
Firms
- Akin Gump
- Alston & Bird
- Altshuler Berzon
- Andrus Anderson
- A&O Shearman
- Bailey & Glasser
- Bandas Law Firm
- Barrack Rodos
- Bartko LLP
- Bartko Zankel
- Becnel Law Firm LLC
- Berger Montague
- Berman Tabacco
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Block & Leviton
- BoiesBattin
- Boni Zack
- Bonsignore Trial Lawyers
- Bramson Plutzik
- Breall & Breall
- Broussard and Williamson
- Bryan Cave
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Cadwalader Wickersham
- Cafferty Clobes
- Carella Byrne
- Carlton Fields
- Cohen Milstein
- Cooley LLP
- Cotchett Pitre
- Crowell & Moring
- Cuneo Gilbert
- Dishman Law
- DLA Piper
- Doyle APC
- Doyle Lowther
- Eimer Stahl
- Emerson Firm
- Emerson Poynter
- Farella Braun
- Faruqi & Faruqi
- Fenwick & West
- Fine Kaplan
- Finkelstein Thompson
- Freed Kanner
- Gibbs Law Group
- Gibson Dunn
- Girard Sharp
- Glancy Prongay
- Goldman Scarlato
- Goodwin Procter
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Green & Noblin PC
- Greenspoon Marder
- Gross & Belsky
- Gustafson Gluek
- Hadsell Stormer
- Hagens Berman
- Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute
- Hartley LLP
- Hausfeld LLP
- Heins Mills
- Hellmuth & Johnson
- Hunton Andrews
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Kaplan Fox
- Karon LLC
- Keller Grover
- Keller Rohrback
- Kellogg Hansen
- Kenny Nachwalter
- Kirby McInerney
- Korein Tillery
- Krause Kalfayan
- Kuzyk Law
- Labaton Keller
- Lathrop GPM
- Law Office of Roderick P. Bushnell
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Law Offices of Jon T. King
- Levin Papantonio
- Lewis & Llewellyn
- Lexington Law Group
- L&G Law Group
- Lichten & Liss Riordan
- Lieff Cabraser
- Lite DePalma
- Lockridge Grindal
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Manfred APC
- Messing Adam
- Milberg Coleman
- Miller Shah LLP
- MoginRubin
- Morrison Foerster
- NastLaw
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Nussbaum Law Group
- Pearson Warshaw
- Perkins Coie
- Pogust Goodhead
- Polsinelli PC
- Pomerantz LLP
- Pritzker Levine
- Quantum Legal LLC
- Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP
- Reich Radcliffe
- Reinhardt Wendorf
- Renne Public Law Group
- Robbins Geller
- Robins Kaplan
- Safirstein Law
- Saltz Mongeluzzi
- Saveri & Saveri
- Schnader Harrison
- Schneider Wallace
- Schubert Jonckheer
- Shaffer Lombardo
- Sheppard Mullin
- Shustak Reynolds
- Sloan Sakai
- Spector Roseman
- Squire Patton
- Steptoe LLP
- Steven Williams Law
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Stoel Rives
- Stranch Jennings
- Sullivan Blackburn
- SulmeyerKupetz
- Susman Godfrey
- Tostrud Law Group
- Trump Alioto
- Tucker Ellis
- Vinson & Elkins
- Weinstein Kitchenoff
- Weitz & Luxenberg
- White & Case
- Wilentz Goldman
- Williams Barber
- Willkie Farr
- WilmerHale
- Winston & Strawn
- Wyatt & Blake
- Zaremba Brown
- Zelle LLP
- Zimmerman Reed
Companies
- Acer Inc.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Best Buy Co. Inc.
- BlackBerry Ltd.
- Dell Technologies Inc.
- Flex Ltd.
- Hitachi Ltd.
- Kmart Corp.
- LG Chem Ltd.
- Maxell Ltd.
- Microsoft Corp.
- NEC Corp.
- Panasonic Corp.
- Ritz Camera & Image
- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Sears Holdings Corp.
- T-Mobile US Inc.
- Toshiba Corp.
- TracFone Wireless Inc.
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May 31, 2018
Atty Fighting Contempt Says Sister Was Prepared For Depo
The lawyer for a travel agency objecting to a $139.3 million battery price-fixing class action settlement has told a California federal judge that a magistrate erred in recommending a contempt order against him and his client for bringing a "manifestly unprepared" corporate representative — his own sister — to a deposition.
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May 08, 2018
Buyers' Attys To Get $45M In Fees, Costs In Battery MDL
A California federal judge overseeing a $139.3 million package of settlements in sprawling multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing by Samsung, Sony, LG and other lithium ion battery makers said Tuesday she'll award over $45 million in attorneys' fees and costs to counsel for a class of direct buyers.
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April 03, 2018
Think Tank Urges Reset On Lithium Ion Battery Settlement
A conservative think tank has urged the Ninth Circuit to reject a class settlement in the massive lithium ion battery multidistrict litigation, arguing in a brief filed Monday that the class roped in plaintiffs who had no claims.
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March 26, 2018
Acer, Samsung Settle As Battery Price-Fix MDL Winds Down
Acer Inc. agreed to dismiss its lithium ion battery price-fixing claims against Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. on Friday as vast multidistrict litigation resulting in tens of millions in settlements continues to wind down with resolutions among the various parties.
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March 14, 2018
Tokin, Toshiba Resolve Battery Price-Fixing MDL Claims
A California federal judge on Wednesday signed off on the stipulated dismissal of TracFone Wireless Inc.'s lithium battery price-fixing allegations against Tokin Corp., representing the latest of several claims to be dropped from the multidistrict litigation, including accusations against Toshiba Corp.
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March 07, 2018
Panasonic Ducks Class Cert. In Battery Price-Fixing Suit
A California judge has rejected class certification by consumers in multidistrict litigation over lithium battery price-fixing, giving Panasonic Corp. a huge victory against a $1.7 billion treble-damages claim after all other defendant companies paid millions in settlements.
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December 12, 2017
Flextronics 'Screwed Up' By Missing Opt-Out, Judge Says
A California federal judge said Tuesday she doesn't have a lot of sympathy for Flextronics' failure to opt out of Maxell, NEC, Panasonic and Toshiba's $49.85 million settlement with a class of direct purchasers of lithium-ion batteries, saying the electronics manufacturer "screwed up" by missing the opt-out deadline and it's now scrambling.
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November 21, 2017
Judge Slams Battery Co.'s 'Gamesmanship' In Antitrust MDL
A California federal judge on Tuesday threatened to sanction Simplo USA and hold it in contempt for violating orders requiring the lithium-ion battery pack developer to hand over sales data in multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to fix battery prices, saying "all I see is gamesmanship — nothing else."
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August 31, 2017
Dell, LG Chem Settle Price-Fixing Claims In Battery MDL
LG Chem has reached an agreement to settle claims by Dell that the company participated in a conspiracy to fix prices for lithium-ion batteries, according to papers filed in a California federal court Wednesday.
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August 29, 2017
Hitachi, Toshiba, Others Get Final OK On $49M Antitrust Deal
A California federal judge said Tuesday she'll approve a $49.85 million deal resolving class claims by direct lithium-ion battery purchasers that Hitachi, Panasonic, Toshiba and NEC colluded to fix battery prices, commending the parties for reaching a settlement and ending the 4-year-old litigation.