Using both economic theory and empirical evidence, the Article explains how judgment-sharing agreements may reduce settlement values, lead to the suppression of incriminating evidence, reduce the likelihood of success of meritorious price-fixing suits, and make
price fixing cost-beneficial The Article then argues that fairness arguments in favor of judgment-sharing agreements (and contribution more generally) are misguided and easily disproved, and in any event outweighed by the potential anticompetitive effects of such agreements.
By "foreign
price fixing" and "foreign cartels," this Article refers to fixing prices in markets outside of the United States.
Kevin Lovell, CEO of SAPA, said: "The allegations are not merely
price fixing per se but are various in nature.
No one is saying the celebration was engaged in illegal
price fixing.
Passing sentence Judge Michael O'Shea said he accepted Doran had done a lot that was correct and proper but the
price fixing was well organised and monitored.
There is also the wider point of the whole concept or principle of
price fixing. Why stop with fixing the prices of food and medicine.
MAJOR supermarket chains confirmed yesterday they had received visits from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which is said to be investigating allegations of
price fixing.
First, antitrust law should increase the severity and probability of criminal punishment of individuals who participate in
price fixing. Second, antitrust law should reward individuals who expose cartel activity by providing them immunity from all criminal and civil liability and by paying antitrust bounties to such faithless agents.
FAMILIES face whopping 21 PER CENT increases in gas bills in the New Year because of
price fixing in Europe.
If a price recommendation does have the effect of 'fixing, controlling or maintaining' price there seems little reason to treat it differently from other
price fixing agreements....
Welter and the physician groups orchestrated boycotts and engaged in
price fixing and other anticompetitive conduct, the FTC says.