Ohio v. Ohio Vision Service et al.
State of Ohio sued the Ohio Vision Service under the Sherman Act for unlawfully price fixing and devising a scheme to boycott competitors
Utah v. Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Civ. No. 20910931 MI) (3rd Dis. Utah, 2002)
Defendant sorbate manufacturers were charged with collusion, price-fixing and market allocation
Utah v. Signing Resource, LLC, et al. (Civ. No. 050909852) (3rd Dis. Utah, 2005)
State brought action against sign language interpreters alleging bid-rigging and price fixing in the market for sign language interpreters provided to State agencies in Utah
West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Visa USA, Inc. et al., No. 03-C-551 (Cir. Ct. Ohio Cty. 2003)
The State sued Visa and Mastercard claiming the companies used their market power in general credit cards to force merchants to accept their branded debit cards. The high cost of accepting the branded debit cards forced retailers to charge consumers more for goods purchased. As a settlement, Visa paid $9.3 million and MasterCard paid $2.3 million to state, which was used to fund a tax holiday on Energy Star products, and a total of $600,000 to the Attorney General’s revolving fund.
Utah v. Nuttall Bernina (Civ. No. 000903757 (3rd Dist. Utah, 2000)
State of Utah investigated Nuttall Bernina and Dave’s Bernina, alleging market allocation, price fixing and bid-rigging in sales of Bernina sewing machines to school districts in Salt Lake and Utah counties.
Utah v. Alvey et al., (Civ. No. 94334) (2nd Dist. Utah 1985)
State of Utah investigated defendants Northern Utah Body Shop Association, William Alvey, Clair Baur and other auto body repair shops in the Ogden Utah area, alleging they conspired and encouraged others to conspire to fix labor prices and otherwise restrict and artificially raise and maintain prices for auto body work.
Utah v. Curb-King, INc. (Civ. No. 040100254 MI)(1st Dist. Utah 2004)
State alleged Curb-King and Duane Patterson solicited co-conspirators to fix the price of contrete curbing services in the Utah market
New Hampshire v.Simon Property Group, Inc., Merrimack Cty Super. Ct. 2005
State alleged that defendant compaines conspired to bar the entry of a competing jeweler in the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH
Iowa v. Larrry Bentler, et al.,
State settled with three gasoline retailers accused of fixing prices in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Texas v. Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens of Brownsville, Texas, Inc., et al. 1991-2 Trade Cas. (CCH) 69,384 (1991)
State of Texas sued Defendants, alleging they conspired to fix prices of crematory services in Cameron & Hildago Counties of Texas
