June 03, 2013
Retailers seeking millions of dollars in damages over an alleged cathode ray tube price-fixing plot said Friday that a special master working on the multidistrict litigation had bungled the law in suggesting some of their claims should be dismissed.
May 03, 2013
The special master in a multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing of cathode ray tubes urged a California federal judge Thursday to keep in place federal antitrust claims brought by retailers against several CRT companies but recommended other claims be tossed.
March 14, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its New Jersey-based subsidiary were released Wednesday from antitrust claims by a class of U.S. consumers who allege that collusion in the cathode ray tube manufacturing industry forced them to pay higher prices for electronics that incorporated CRT products.
March 12, 2013
Toshiba Corp. will pay $13.5 million to settle direct purchasers' claims in multidistrict litigation alleging it conspired with other electronics makers to fix the prices of cathode ray tubes and CRT products under a deal preliminarily approved by a California federal judge Tuesday.
February 25, 2013
A recent Ninth Circuit ruling reinstating AT&T Inc.'s price-fixing claims in the liquid crystal display multidistrict litigation shouldn't spare claims several retail chains brought against a group of cathode ray tube makers from dismissal, the defendants said Friday.
February 15, 2013
Toshiba Corp. on Friday agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle direct purchaser plaintiffs' claims in multidistrict litigation that Toshiba and other electronics makers conspired to fix the prices of cathode ray tubes and finished products containing them.
February 14, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and other electronics makers on Wednesday lost their bid in California federal court to appeal a ruling that indirect purchasers of allegedly price-fixed cathode ray tubes could pursue antitrust claims under an exception to the U.S. Supreme Court's Illinois Brick ruling.
December 11, 2012
The state of Florida ended its pursuit of price-fixing claims against cathode ray tube television makers Monday, less than a month after a report recommended a California federal court toss the state's case from multidistrict litigation.
November 30, 2012
A California federal judge tossed some antitrust claims in multidistrict litigation against Hitachi Ltd. and Samsung on Thursday, but said the electronics makers still had to face claims from retailers who bought their products containing cathode ray tubes because they're controlled by companies accused of fixing prices on CRTs.
November 19, 2012
A special master in multidistrict antitrust litigation told a California federal court Friday that it should toss Florida's complaint alleging Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic Corp. and other electronics makers fixed cathode ray tube prices, saying the state's injunction and damages claims were untimely.