Sentence examples for illegal price fixing from inspiring English sources

Monsanto also said the companies discussed prices, but added that they were engaged in legitimate negotiations about changes to an existing licensing agreement, not illegal price fixing.

Saying she wished to "intrude as little as possible" on Apple's business, a federal judge said on Tuesday that she wanted to narrowly focus the company's proposed punishment for illegal price fixing of e-books.

The three publishers rejected the claim that they had been involved in illegal price fixing, describing the agreement as a chance to avoid the expense and distraction of a prolonged legal dispute.

In the end, the court held that the NCAA ban on revenue for athletes when their names or likenesses were used commercially amounted to illegal price fixing in restraint of trade and were enjoined.

The absence of any evidence of substantial financial risk would result in summary condemnation of the collaboration as per se illegal price fixing [ 7].

"The e-books case is about an alleged illegal price-fixing conspiracy.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that they had engaged in an illegal price-fixing boycott.

The second is that collective bargaining by independent contractors would amount to illegal price-fixing under antitrust law.

BA was fined a record £270m by the OFT and the US Department of Justice after admitting illegal price-fixing of fuel surcharges on long-haul flights.

The severity of the American fine also reflected BA's role in a different international conspiracy involving Korean Air and Lufthansa.A clearer example of illegal price-fixing than that between BA and Virgin would be hard to imagine.

The Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly challenged such collective action as illegal price-fixing, even though doctors say they are at a severe disadvantage in trying to negotiate with giant insurance companies.