July 09, 2020
Hausfeld, Berman Tabacco and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm have filed competing bids requesting a California federal judge name them lead counsel for a group of consumers who accuse e-cigarette maker Juul and former rival Altria of violating antitrust laws by conspiring to reduce the variety of products on the market.
May 07, 2020
Eight lawsuits accusing Juul Labs of striking an anti-competitive deal that saw a rival wind down its e-cigarette business in exchange for an ownership stake in the vaping giant were related to each other Thursday by a California federal judge.
April 21, 2020
Juul Labs Inc. is pushing to keep a set of antitrust lawsuits challenging Altria Group Inc.'s $12.8 billion deal to buy a stake in the e-cigarette startup out of multidistrict litigation over allegations that Juul deceptively marketed its products, saying the antitrust suits should just be grouped with themselves.
April 16, 2020
A Juul Labs Inc. customer challenging Altria Group Inc.'s deal to buy a $12.8 billion stake in the e-cigarette startup asked a California federal court to merge his proposed antitrust class action with multidistrict litigation over Juul's marketing and sale of e-cigarettes to teens, saying both cases likely involved some overlapping discovery from defendants.
April 07, 2020
A $12.8 billion deal between Juul and Altria "eliminated a potential competitor" for Juul and allowed it to gouge direct purchasers with artificially inflated prices, a Juul customer said in a proposed antitrust class action complaint filed against the companies in California federal court Tuesday.