In Re: Dealer Management Systems Antitrust Litigation

  1. August 16, 2024

    CDK's $100M Deal Puts Auto Dealer Settlements Up To $130M

    Car dealerships sought preliminary approval Friday for a $100 million class action settlement resolving claims that auto dealer data management software giant CDK Global anticompetitively locked out rival data companies, adding to the $29.5 million agreement reached previously in the sprawling litigation with CDK peer Reynolds and Reynolds.

  2. June 01, 2022

    Auto Tech Co. Reynolds Settles One Slice Of Antitrust MDL

    Auto tech company Reynolds and Reynolds and data firm Authenticom have settled claims that Reynolds monopolized the market for auto dealer data management software, one piece of a five-year-old multidistrict litigation.

  3. March 23, 2021

    Auto Tech Co. Reynolds Slams Sanctions Bid In Antitrust MDL

    Reynolds and Reynolds on Tuesday argued it should not be sanctioned for the alleged destruction of email files related to the car software company's ongoing antitrust litigation, claiming it could not have anticipated the lawsuit when those files were destroyed and there was no duty at the time to preserve them.

  4. February 12, 2021

    CDK, Reynolds Battle Auto Dealer Data MDL

    CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds went toe-to-toe Friday in Illinois federal court with auto dealerships and rival data companies accusing them in multidistrict litigation of monopolizing the auto dealer data market in a series of lightning rounds laying out the scope of competing antitrust and improper data access claims.

  5. September 24, 2020

    FTC Wrongly Got Docs In Auto Dealer DMS Suit, Court Told

    A technology provider that works with car dealerships has urged an Illinois federal judge to order the return or destruction of confidential materials it says wrongly got into the Federal Trade Commission's hands after serving as third-party testimony in an antitrust suit.

  6. August 14, 2020

    CDK Says Docs Aren't Atty Work Product In Dealer Data MDL

    CDK Global LLC has argued that AutoLoop must turn over more than 100 documents in multidistrict litigation over alleged manipulation of the market for auto dealer data by CDK and a rival, saying communications during a period it wasn't engaged in any litigation aren't attorney work product.

  7. June 08, 2020

    Reynolds & Reynolds Wins Docs Bid In Auto Dealer Data MDL

    Authenticom Inc. must turn over most of the third-party communications that CDK Global LLC and Reynolds & Reynolds Co. requested from the rival software company in multidistrict litigation over their alleged manipulation of the market for crucial auto dealer data, an Illinois federal judge said.

  8. February 20, 2020

    Piece Of Auto Dealer Data MDL Bound For Arbitration

    An Illinois federal judge hit the brakes Thursday on one piece of the antitrust multidistrict litigation against Reynolds and Reynolds Co. and CDK Global, holding that it's up to an arbitrator to decide whether an automotive industry data technology company's claims should be arbitrated.

  9. October 31, 2019

    Auto Data Co. Fights Reynolds' Bid To Slice Up Antitrust Case

    Auto industry data integrator Authenticom Inc. has fired back at Reynolds and Reynolds Co.'s efforts for a quick win on its allegations that the data company illegally hacked Reynolds' dealer data system, arguing the two claims should be handled next year with its other claims as the case schedule prescribes.

  10. October 15, 2019

    CDK, Reynolds Fight New Theory Adding Millions In Damages

    The Reynolds and Reynolds Co. and CDK Global asked an Illinois federal judge Monday to bar car dealers from pursuing a "fundamentally new" theory that could potentially add millions of dollars to damages in an antitrust MDL.