West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Meadow Gold Dairies and Valley Rich Dairy, No. 93-0915-R (W.D. Va. 1995)
Meadow Gold and Valley Rich were accused of bid-rigging, market allocation and price fixing fluid milk sold to public schools in Southeastern West Virginia and Virginia. Valley Rich settled the case and Meadow Gold was dismissed. The case against Meadow Gold was refiled in West Virginia State Court. This action followed a guilty plea by Borden, Inc. to federal antitrust charges on rigging bids for school milk programs.
West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Meadow Gold Dairies, Inc., No. 95-C-65 (Cir. Ct. Greenbrier Cty. 1995)
Meadow Gold Dairies conspired with other fluid milk distributors to rig bids and divide the market for supplying milk to public school districts in Southeastern West Virginia
West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Wampler Foods, Inc., No. 99-C-10 (Cir. Ct. Hardy Cty. 1999)
The State brought an action claiming Wampler was using its monopsonistic power to control the prices paid to farmers raising chickens for it. Farmers had no other buyer for the chickens they raised other than Wampler. The Court dismissed the action finding that Wampler had not engaged in any exclusionary conduct.
West Virginia ex rel. McGraw v. Abbott Labs and Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 05-C-180 (Cir. Ct. Wyoming Cty. 2005)
The brand name maker of the prescription drug Hytrin, Abbott, entered into an agreement with Geneva to keep Geneva’s generic version of Hytrin off the market. Geneva was paid a substantial amount of money by Abbott while Abbott continued to collect monopoly profits on its name brand drug. Because of federal laws, Geneva effectively blocked the entry of other generic drug makers from entering the market. The matter settled in conjunction with MDL litigation.
Wisconsin v. Morris K. Lear (No. 99-CF-1365), Western Wisc. Inspection (99-CF-1366), Bruce Getten (99-CF-1367), Ronald Habermann (No. 99-CF-1368), Indep. Inspections (99-CF-1369) (Wis. Cir. Ct. Dane Cty 2000)
Wisconsin alleged defendants were involved in an agreement to limit competition for state contracts to conduct inspections of liquid storage tanks. Known as the “LPO” cases (Local Program Operators)
Washington v. BP Oil Company, No. 92-civ-00489 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 30, 1992)
BP Oil purchased all of Exxon?s retail gas stations in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Under the settlement, BP was required to sell certain stations to reduce market share.
Wisconsin v. The Wisconsin Chiropractic Ass’n , Case No. 01CV3568, Circuit Court Dane County (December 2001)
Complaint alleged that WCA and Leonard orchestrated a conspiracy among WCA members to increase prices for chiropractic services and to boycott third-party payers.
Wisconsin v. Kenosha Hospital and Medical Center and St. Catherine’s Hospital, 1996 WL 784584 (E.D. Wis.), 1997-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) P 71,669
Wisconsin entered into a consent decree permitting merger conditioned on injunctive relief protecting competition
Washington v. Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc., No. C91-39 (W.D. Wash. 1991)
Texaco purchased all of Shell’s retail gasoline stations in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Texaco agreed to sell stations with a combined volume of 12 million gallons per year in the relevant market.
Washington v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Walla Walla, et. al, No. 90-3032 (E.D. Wash 1990)
The State alleged that defendants engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices, rotate bids, allocate locations of vending machines and eliminate discounts.
