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.
And, on May 16th, a group of tobacco firms agreed to pay $200m to settle a price-fixing case brought by tobacco growers.Despite its foot-dragging over the tobacco treaty, America has led the world in restricting smoking in public, on the grounds that it damages the health of non-smokers obliged to inhale the fumes.
The Nvidia Corporation, the sole supplier of graphics chips for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console, must keep selling processors to Microsoft as the companies try to settle a pricing dispute, an arbitration panel ruled.
The diamond giant is in advanced talks to settle a price-fixing charge and return to the U.S. market, according to a Tuesday story in The Wall Street Journal.
Another, which is relevant to Apples new news subscription product, is that "the data of their customers is directed to Google and Apple instead of the app provider themselves". Apple has relied on its smaller market penetration to avoid antitrust scrutiny, although it had to pay $450 million to settle a price-fixing complaint relating to e-books in 2016.
The company recently agreed to pay $147 million to settle a pricing dispute with the Federal Trade Commission involving two important drugs, the generic versions of Ativan and Traxene, two anti-anxiety treatments.
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.
Visa Inc.andMasterCard Inc.agreed late Friday to pay retailers $6 billion to settle a price-fixing lawsuit that alleged they overcharged companies billions of dollars in credit-card transaction fees.
When Emmerson sought to lease a log-dump facility from Park, the pair tossed a quarter to settle a $2,500 price disagreement.
