The East Coast Pipeline Shutdown and Price Gouging | Alston & Bird
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Price gouging is back in the news, this time as Americans rush to buy gasoline after a major East Coast pipeline is temporarily shut down. Our Antitrust Team provides lessons for how companies can handle price gouging, from avoiding becoming victims of vendors to their own compliance with individual state laws. An overview of price-gouging laws How the current “crisis” is affecting businesses Lessons to be learned The recent ransomware attack on a major East Coast pipeline on May 7 has triggered fuel shortages and increased reta...