Macmillan has agreed to pay up to twenty million dollars to settle the Department of Justice e-book price fixing lawsuit, making it the fifth and final of the accused publishers to reach a settlement.
By Rachel Arons February 11 , 2013Macmillan has agreed to pay up to twenty million dollars to settle the Department of Justice e-book price fixing lawsuit, making it the fifth and final of the accused publishers to reach a settlement.
Roche reached an agreement last month to sell its vitamins and specialty chemicals division to DSM, a Dutch chemicals group, for $2.2 billion, but it remains responsible for liabilities from the price-fixing lawsuits, including a class-action suit in the United States.
At Boies Schiller, Mr. Bernick earlier this year lost a trial defending Dow Chemical in a urethane price-fixing lawsuit.
Even this week as Apple lost an ebook price-fixing lawsuit using a scheme the court described as "the supreme evil of antitrust", the narrative in the tech industry press has been that an injustice has been done to the company.
Kimberly- Clark the maker of Kleenex facial tissue and Scott paper towels -- and other commercial tissue manufacturers have agreed to settle a price-fixing lawsuit for $56.2 million, lawyers said today.
The judge presiding over a price-fixing lawsuit against Sotheby's Holdings and Christie's International said yesterday that he was not happy with an important element of a proposed $512 million settlement.
NEW YORK TIMES U.S. Portrays Apple as 'Ringmaster' in E-Book Price-Fixing Lawsuit | The Justice Department now says that Apple had "a more direct leadership role than originally portrayed in the department's April 2012 antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five publishing companies," The New York Times writes.
Dow Chemical Co., one of America's largest chemical manufacturers, agreed on Friday to settle a price-fixing lawsuit for $835 million in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia's death.
(Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc <BKS.N> has objected to the U.S. government's proposed settlement of its price-fixing lawsuit against top publishers, saying it would harm book sellers and "millions and millions" of book buyers.
