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IN RE: LITHIUM ION BATTERIES ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Case Number:
4:13-md-02420
Court:
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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October 02, 2014
Judge Trims Price-Fixing MDL Over Lithium Ion Batteries
A California federal judge on Thursday pared the latest version of antitrust suits filed by classes of direct and indirect purchasers alleging a price-fixing scheme among lithium ion battery manufacturers, but kept both suits alive after finding that they pled antitrust claims adequately.
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June 18, 2014
Panasonic Attacks Battery Purchasers' Antitrust Standing
Panasonic Corp. on Tuesday roundly criticized the latest iteration of a complaint in California federal court by group of direct purchasers alleging a price-fixing scheme among lithium ion battery manufacturers, arguing that the plaintiffs have no standing to assert their antitrust claims.
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April 28, 2014
LG Chem, GS Yuasa Want Out Of Battery Price-Fixing MDL
The U.S. unit of South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. and Japan-based Yuasa Corp. on Friday challenged purchasers' claims in multidistrict litigation over a scheme to fix lithium ion battery prices, with LG calling the claims too broad and GS Yuasa asking to exit the case for good.
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January 21, 2014
Suits Tossed In Japanese, Korean Battery Price-Fixing MDL
A California federal judge on Tuesday dismissed two putative class actions alleging a multiyear, international price-fixing conspiracy among Japanese and South Korean manufacturers of lithium ion battery cells, saying the suits sufficiently allege the conspiracy and cover-up but don't yet show a conscious commitment to conspire.
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December 06, 2013
Panasonic Ordered To Remit Criminal Docs In Antitrust MDL
A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict price-fixing litigation against lithium-ion battery manufacturers on Friday ordered Panasonic Corp. to hand over documents used in a separate grand jury investigation that led Panasonic subsidiary Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. to plead guilty to antitrust charges and pay $10.7 million.
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October 17, 2013
Sony, Others Belong In Battery Price-Fixing Suit, Court Told
Purchaser plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation accusing Sony Corp. and a slew of electronics companies of conspiring to fix the prices of cylindrical lithium-ion batteries urged a California federal judge not to dismiss defendants from the case, saying the complaints are sufficiently pled to go forward.
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September 17, 2013
Battery Price-Fixing Conspiracy 'Implausible,' Sony Says
Sony Corp. asked a California federal judge Monday to toss the antitrust claims against it in multidistrict litigation alleging the company was involved in a scheme to fix the prices of lithium ion batteries, saying the direct and indirect purchasers' suits presented a far-fetched conspiracy backed up by scant evidence.