September 20, 2012
A California federal judge on Thursday hit AU Optronics Corp. with a $500 million fine and sentenced two of its executives to three years each in jail after the Taiwanese company was found guilty of fixing prices on liquid crystal display screens.
September 18, 2012
AU Optronics Corp. on Monday harshly criticized the government's request for a $1 billion fine over the company's role in a sprawling conspiracy to fix prices for liquid crystal display panels, ripping the prosecution for its "shrill hyperbole."
September 12, 2012
Prosecutors asked a California federal judge Tuesday to fine AU Optronics Corp. $1 billion and send two of its executives to prison for 10 years following their convictions in a sprawling price-fixing investigation into the liquid crystal display panel industry.
September 06, 2012
A California federal judge on Tuesday agreed to delay sentencing for AU Optronics Corp. and two of its executives following their convictions of price-fixing, overruling the prosecution's request that the court stick to its scheduled Sept. 14 hearing.
September 04, 2012
AU Optronics Corp. argued Tuesday that the federal court overseeing its LCD-panel price-fixing case should postpone a Sept. 14 sentencing hearing despite the government's objections because its docket is too overloaded to handle the complicated sentencing issues in the case.
June 06, 2012
A California federal judge on Tuesday refused to overturn the price-fixing convictions of liquid crystal display manufacturer AU Optronics Corp. and two executives, ruling that the defendants had waived some of their complaints by agreeing to the jury instructions and rejecting others as baseless.
May 18, 2012
A California federal judge refused Friday to allow a convicted AU Optronics Corp. executive to hire Hogan Lovells attorney Neal Katyal after the government raised ethics law objections to allowing the former acting solicitor general to work on the price-fixing case.
May 14, 2012
Convicted AU Optronics Corp. executive Hui Hsiung accused the government Monday of overstating the reach of ethics law to bar him from hiring Hogan Lovells attorney Neal Katyal even though the former acting solicitor general worked not on the price-fixing prosecution but on a related appeal.
May 10, 2012
Hogan Lovells attorney Neal Katyal should be barred from representing an AU Optronics Corp. executive convicted of price-fixing because he was involved in the government's fight to subpoena documents from the defendants' attorneys while serving as acting solicitor general, prosecutors said Wednesday.
May 07, 2012
The U.S. Department of Justice is opposing a convicted AU Optronics Corp. director's bid to hire prominent Hogan Lovells appellate attorney and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal to represent him in the liquid crystal display price-fixing case, the agency said in a court filing Friday.