Georgia-Pacific Antitrust Suit Over Plywood Survives

By Erin Coe

Law360, New York (March 19, 2010, 7:08 PM ET) -- A federal judge has allowed direct purchasers to proceed with claims that Georgia-Pacific Corp. and other manufacturers engaged in a conspiracy to fix the prices of plywood, but limited the claims to purchases made after November 2004.

Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday granted Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser Co. and Louisiana-Pacific Corp.’s bid to dismiss with prejudice the plaintiffs’ claims stemming from plywood purchases made before November 2004, in addition to one other set of claims, but...
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