April 14, 2025
Celestron and several other rival telescope makers have convinced a California federal court to give their $32 million settlement to end claims that they had been working together to hike up the price of the stargazing devices its final seal of approval, after nearly five years of litigation.
January 10, 2025
Class counsel for a group of indirect purchasers who struck a $32 million settlement with Celestron and other companies in an antitrust case accusing them of conspiring to increase the prices of telescopes asked a California federal judge Thursday to grant $10.67 million in attorney fees and $771,461 in costs.
November 01, 2024
Celestron and several other rival telescope makers have convinced a California federal court to preliminarily approve their $32 million settlement to end claims that they had been working together to hike up the price of the stargazing devices, after more than four years of litigation.
August 13, 2020
Robins Kaplan LLP asked a California federal judge Wednesday to appoint it lead counsel and opposed appointing Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP, Susman Godfrey LLP and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP to represent a proposed class of indirect purchasers suing telescope makers for allegedly teaming up to hike their prices.
July 01, 2020
Celestron wants out of a $350 million suit accusing the telescope maker of teaming up with rivals to hike the price of the stargazing devices, slamming the suit as a "transparent and frivolous" effort by a non-party competitor to run it out of business.
June 02, 2020
An amateur astronomer has leveled a $350 million antitrust lawsuit accusing California-based telescope maker Celestron of illegally teaming up with a rival to pad prices, a conspiracy claim that has already won over a federal jury and saddled industry players with millions in damages.