March 31, 2016
Airlines in price-fixing multidistrict litigation need not hand over documents they already gave to the federal government to customers suing them in a separate case, a Washington federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the airlines' privacy interests outweighed harm to the customers.
February 04, 2016
Two attorneys from Hausfeld LLP and Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP will lead multidistrict litigation accusing American Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., United Airlines Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. of fixing the prices of domestic airline tickets, according to an order filed in D.C. federal court on Thursday.
January 12, 2016
A slew of law firms including Hausfeld LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP separately asked a D.C. federal court Monday to appoint them to lead multidistrict litigation accusing American, Delta, United and Southwest airlines of fixing the prices of domestic airline tickets.
October 20, 2015
The same judge who kept the government's challenge to US Airways' $17 billion merger with American Airlines humming through a government shutdown landed the latest competition fight in the airline industry after multidistrict litigation accusing the carriers of colluding to drive up prices moved to Washington, D.C., last week.