THREE LIMITATIONS OF TWOMBLY: ANTITRUST CONSPIRACY INFERENCES IN A CONTEXT...

St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......in connection with antitrust allegations on a motion...pleading standards in an antitrust conspiracy case.8 The Second Circuit...in Twombly, that an antitrust conspiracy complaint must "include...requirement that an antitrust conspiracy complaint be merely...narrow context of ...

Supreme Court Announces New "Plausibility" Standard for Rule 12(b)(6)...

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for the conspiracy allegation was parallel conduct on the part of the defendants (1...claim, arguing that allegations of parallel conduct alone were insufficient to support...suggesting that the defendants' parallel conduct was the result of an illegal conspiracy...

DOJ Finds LaRoche and BASE Guilty.

Chemical Market Reporter;  May 24, 1999 ;     219 words ......vitamin cartel is the most pervasive and harmful criminal antitrust conspiracy ever uncovered, Assistant Attorney General Joel I. Klein...Rhone-Poulenc was what the division needed to crack the largest antitrust conspiracy uncovered to date, noted Gary R. Spratling, deputy assistant...

Federal Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Medical Residents' Antitrust...

PR Newswire;  June 6, 2006 ;     430 words ......education system, barred allegations of a nationwide antitrust conspiracy to depress the compensation of medical residents. Based...Judge Friedman's rulings. The linchpin of the alleged antitrust conspiracy was the Match, a decades- old system that ensures that...

CORRECTION

The Boston Globe;  September 7, 1996 ;     56 words ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in Thursday's Business section inaccurately attributed a statement that an antitrust conspiracy alleged by the Massachusetts School of Law was "illogical and makes no economic sense." The statement was contained in...

The Ticker

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 24, 2007 ;     95 words ...AIRLINES ADMIT COLLUSION British Airways and Korean Air pleaded guilty to U.S. antitrust conspiracy charges and were each fined $300 million. They acknowledged colluding with rivals over cargo rates and fuel surcharges, which were...

Executives to get more prison

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 27, 2000 ;     71 words ......more prison time for two former Archer Daniels Midland Co. executives Monday, saying that as leaders of a $100 million antitrust conspiracy they deserved longer sentences. Under the decision, Michael D. Andreas and Terrance W. Wilson, now serving two-year sentences...

Sotheby's and ex-CEO charged

Charleston Gazette;  October 6, 2000 ;     67 words ......ripped off clients for years. Sotheby's, which controls virtually the entire $4 billion worldwide auction market along with Christie's, admitted to an antitrust conspiracy uncovered during a three-year investigation by the Justice Department.

Tobacco industry agreement ends colorful health claims

AP Online;  May 2, 1998 ;     527 words ......the decision to form the TIRC was the beginning of an antitrust conspiracy not to compete on smoking and health issues, including...smoking-related illnesses, plus punitive damages. If antitrust conspiracy is proved, damages could be tripled. Copyright 1998 The...

Sotheby's Fined $45 million

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  February 4, 2001 ;     89 words ......accepted a plea deal in which Sotheby's auction house will pay a $45 million fine for admitting it participated in an antitrust conspiracy to cheat its buyers and sellers. Sotheby's and its former chief executive Diana D. Brooks pleaded guilty in October to...

Sotheby's makes deal in price-fixing case

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 4, 2001 ;     134 words ......accepted a plea deal in which Sotheby's auction house will pay a $45 million fine for admitting it participated in an antitrust conspiracy to cheat its buyers and sellers. Sotheby's and its former chief executive Diana D. Brooks pleaded guilty in October to...

VITAMIN COMPANIES TO PAY $725 MILLION FOR FIXING PRICES

The Columbian;  May 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ......vitamin cartel is the most pervasive and harmful criminal antitrust conspiracy ever uncovered," Assistant Attorney General Joel I. Klein...Poulenc was what the division needed to crack the largest antitrust conspiracy uncovered to date." He added that Hoffmann-LaRoche and...

THE AFTER-SHOCKS OF TWOMBLY: WILL WE "NOTICE" PLEADING CHANGES?

St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......dissatisfaction with notice pleading,3 at least in large, complex antitrust conspiracy cases, and the dissent certainly viewed the majority...new" standard applies to all civil cases or merely to antitrust conspiracy cases, with most commentators concluding that the pleading...

TWOMBLY, THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE AND THE COURTS

St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......matter of law, to state a claim for an antitrust conspiracy in violation of section 1 of the Sherman...to withstand a motion to dismiss, an antitrust conspiracy complaint must plead "enough factual...

A "plausible" explanation of pleading standards: Bell Atlantic Corp. v....

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......holding that plaintiffs alleging an antitrust conspiracy under section 1 of the Sherman Act...reason to believe that defendants' parallel conduct was reflective of any agreement...Souter conceded that allegations of parallel conduct are consistent with conspiracy, but...