Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

1999

Year Resolved

1999

Settlement Amount

n/a

Court

U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Docket Number

2:99-CV-00303J

Lead State

UT

Participating States

UT

Defendant(s)

Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

Case Description

Plaintiff state entered into a consent decree with Allied to ensure that Allied did not use its control of the Washington County landfill to disadvantage competitors. Allied agreed to treat all haulers the same with respect to storage of waste containers, hauling outside normal business hours, inclusion of banned hazardous waste in waste hauled to the landfill. Allied also will not tie the sale of any other services (e.g. recycling) or products to the purchase of commercial waste services from Allied. Allied will not enter into any contracts for a term of more than 2 years, and there shall be no automatic renewal (evergreen) contracts for longer than one year.Allied may not provide any commercial waste-hauling services below cost so long as it has more thatn 60% of commercial small container waste hauling in Washingotn County.