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 15, 2020
Altria Group Inc. and Juul Labs Inc., already facing a federal antitrust enforcement action and a class action, have been slapped with a second proposed class suit alleging tobacco giant Altria illegally agreed to refrain from competing in the country's e-cigarette market as part of its $12.8 billion purchase of a stake in Juul.