Florida v. Waste Management Inc. of Florida, Nos. 86-55609 and 87-0531 (S.D. Fla. 1988)

Florida sought damages and injunctive relief, alleging that defendant, Waste Management, Inc. of Florida and certain of its former officers and employees engaged in a conspiracy with competitors to allocate the contracts for waste collection and disposal services for the state, its departments, agencies and units of government in Dade and Broward County, Florida.

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Maine v. Casella Waste Systems, Inc., No. CV-99-212 (Kennebec Super. Ct. 1999)

Complaint to enjoin proposed merger in solid waste hauling and disposal industry resolved by Consent Decree permitting merger with significant conditions, including limitations on so-called evergreen contracts for small container hauling services.

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New York v. Salem Sanitary Catering Corp, et. al., No. 85 Civ. 0208 (E.D.N.Y. 1992)

Nassau and Suffolk County garbage collection services conspired to allocate routes and customers, fix prices, coerce competition out of their market and rig bids. New York brought a class action law suit under its parens patriae authority.

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U.S. and Florida v. Waste Management, Inc., No. 1:03CV02076 (D.D.C. 2003)

Waste Management sought to acquire small container commercial hauling assets in Broward County, Florida from Allied Waste. U.S. and Florida challenged the transaction.

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Ohio v. Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.

State of Ohio filed suit on behalf of 25 Toledo area school districts claiming that BFI and its competitors allocated the waste removal market in the Toldeo/Lucas county area. Case was settled

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Utah v. Stericycle, Inc. (Civ. No. 2:03 CV 49) (D.Utah 2003)

State of Utah alleged Stericycle and BFI Waste Systems of North America colluded to allocate markets and customers in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona

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U.S. Illinois, and Missouri v. Allied Waste Industries, Inc.

States of Missouri and Illinois joined in United States Department of Justice action to enjoin acquisition or to remedy anticompetitive effects from proposed acquisition by waste hauler.

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Ohio ex rel. Montgomery v. Allied Waste Industries (Court of Common Pleas, Richmond Cty. 2000)

State challenged acquisiton of waste hauler in Mansfield Ohio area, alleging undue concentration in a two-county market for commercial waste disposal.

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U.S. and Pennsylvania v. USA Waste Services, Inc. (W.D.Pa. 8/22/1997)

Merger of largest and third-largest waste hauling companies in the U.S. Joint complaint and settlement filed, requiriing divestiture of landfill sites near Pittsburgh.

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U.S. and Texas v. Allied Waste and USA Waste Services (D.Texas July 14, 1997)

Joint complaint and settlement regarding acquisition of Texas landfills by Allied.

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