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A previous post discussed what the recently released files of the late Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens revealed about development of the Court’s decisions in Lotus v. Borland, MGM v. Grokster, and Eldred v. Ashcroft. This post looks at the disclosures contained in the files for Quality King v. L’anza, New York Times v. Tasini, and Dastar v. Twentieth…

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Quality King Distributors was accused of jacking up prices for Lysol when it was in high demand.

Quality King Increased Prices of Lysol Products by More Than 50 Percent During Pandemic’s Early Days.

One of the bellwether price gouging cases from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was recently reversed and remanded by New York's First Judicial Department of the Appellate Division.

Last month, we discussed the broad authority that State Attorneys General have in enforcing price gouging laws – many of which remain in effect given the number of states that are still under some state of emergency.

The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic may not involve memories anyone wants to relive, but lawsuits claiming that businesses unconscionably raised prices for emergency-related goods...