Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

2006

Year Resolved

2000

Settlement Amount

n/a

Court

Superior Court of California at Los Angeles

Docket Number

BC 348077

Lead State

CA

Participating States

CA

Defendant(s)

Glenn Conti; Tonya Vaughan; Mark Martin; Lester Kau; John Does 1-10

Case Description

State alleged that defendants participated in a bid-rigging conspiracy designed to allocate bids for advertising on Internet search-engine Yahoo. State sought injunctive relief and penalties in the amount of $2500 per viiolation, which would result in peanlties of approximately $7.2 million per defendant.