New DOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidelines for Labor Markets
Portions of the new antitrust guidelines were expressly based on cases Lieff Cabraser successfully litigated over the last decade
Lieff Cabraser Attorney Team on McDonald’s “No-poach” Employee Pay Suppression Case Recognized as Honorees for AAI 2024 Antitrust Enforcement Awards
The American Antitrust Institute has announced its selection of leading practitioners and economists to be recognized as honorees for the 2024 Antitrust Enforcement Awards. Lieff Cabraser’s team shared the AAI’s award for “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Litigation,” the highest recognition an antitrust plaintiff lawyer can receive for a litigation achievement.
Dean Harvey Discusses the Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation with Higher Education Publications
On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in New York on behalf of neuroscientist Lucina Uddin, challenging six major academic publishers—Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer. The suit, brought on behalf of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, claims
Supreme Court Upholds Seventh Circuit Ruling that McDonald’s Employee Mobility Restriction Litigation Should Move Forward
Lieff Cabraser represents employee plaintiffs in class action litigation against fast food chain McDonald’s over the company’s so-called “no-poach” employee pay and mobility restrictions which prohibit employees from seeking opportunities at other establishments within the vast McDonald’s chain. In August of 2023, the Seventh Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of the case, holding that
Plaintiffs in Antitrust Class Action Against HCA Healthcare/Mission Health Defeat Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss the Lawsuit
On February 21, 2024, plaintiffs represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel completely defeated HCA Healthcare/Mission Health’s multiple attempts to get patient claims thrown out of the proposed class action lawsuit alleging the hospital giants are monopolizing hospital-based care in Asheville, North Carolina through the use of illegal anti-competitive terms in their contracts with insurers.
Lieff Cabraser Partner Brendan Glackin Announces $700 Million Settlement with Google over Play Store Misconduct
Lead Trial Counsel Brendan Glackin and a bipartisan group of 53 attorneys general today announce a $700 million agreement with Google to resolve their lawsuit challenging Google’s monopolization of Android app distribution and in-app payment processing via the Google Play Store.
Anne Shaver to Participate in Upcoming ABA Antitrust Law Section Panel on “Antitrust and Labor Markets”
On Thursday, December 14, 2023, Lieff Cabraser partner Anne Shaver will participate in a panel discussion hosted by the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s Compliance and Ethics and Corporate Counseling Committees on “Antitrust and Labor Markets: Navigating Recent Developments”.
Plaintiffs Defeat T-Mobile’s Motion to Dismiss Private Antitrust Lawsuit Over $26B Sprint Deal
T-Mobile will now face private antitrust action over its allegedly anticompetitive 2022 merger with Sprint In June of 2022, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel filed a federal class action complaint against Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, and Softbank Group challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint as a violation of the antitrust laws, specifically the Clayton Act and
Dean Harvey Sheds Light on RealPage Rent Price-Fixing Lawsuit in New WUSA-TV Interview
A recent report by WUSA-TV in Washington D.C. featured an interview with Lieff Cabraser partner Dean Harvey. The segment focused on current litigation against real-estate tech company RealPage and several of the nation’s largest residential landlords over allegations that they orchestrated a price-fixing scheme designed to unlawfully increase rents for tens of thousands of renters.
Katharina Kolb to Speak at Upcoming SGP Private Enforcement Conference in Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Katharina Kolb, the Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser’s Munich office, will be a speaker at the SGP Private Enforcement Conference on Thursday, October 19, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, together with Professor. Dr. Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Presiding Judge of the Cartel Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice; Hans Althoff, Judge at the Higher