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Both sides of an antitrust class action against RealPage and a group of large landlords won victories in Tennessee federal court last week, as a group of multifamily housing renters beat the property management software company's motion to dismiss, but a separate group of student housing renters had their case tossed for failing to plausibly state a Sherman Act claim.
Three former U.S. attorneys general are backing a Cincinnati city councilor's appeal of his bribery conviction, arguing in a new amicus brief that the Supreme Court requires an explicitly stated quid pro quo to convict an elected official for bribery through campaign contributions. Otherwise, they say, commonplace solicitations from politicians can be considered criminal.
Caterpillar is moving for sanctions in its long-running antitrust dispute with International Construction Products, telling a Delaware federal judge that the now-defunct equipment supplier, which is accusing Caterpillar of tortious interference and boycott claims, failed to preserve important documents as employees left and the company shuttered.
New York-based private equity firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe has been hit with new antitrust claims over its Texas anesthesia physicians group, this time by a Houston workers benefit fund in a proposed class action alleging the firm has effectively monopolized hospital anesthesia services in Texas to drive up costs.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing in Kansas, over allegations that the company's petroleum refinery violated a 2012 consent decree and the Clean Air Act, that includes $13 million in fines and a slate of other requirements.