November 07, 2025
Several Las Vegas hotel operators, two software companies and Blackstone all told the Ninth Circuit to reject a rehearing petition for its August decision for a proposed price-fixing class action that accused hotel operators and Blackstone of conspiring to use the software companies' GuestRev software to set prices for Las Vegas hotel rooms.
October 10, 2025
A nonprofit that focuses on antitrust issues urged entire Ninth Circuit to rehear a price-fixing case accusing several Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same algorithm to set prices for hotel rooms.
September 30, 2025
A proposed class of Las Vegas casino-hotel guests told the Ninth Circuit in a rehearing en banc petition that the entire court must reconsider its prior ruling for their antitrust claims, which alleged that hotel operators and two hospitality software companies conspired to hike up hotel room prices.
August 15, 2025
The Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal on Friday from guests seeking to revive their antitrust case accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using a vendor's software to inflate room rates, finding that the pricing service helps the hotels compete.
May 12, 2025
A skeptical Ninth Circuit panel had questions Monday for guests accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same software to inflate room rates about what they need to show for their algorithmic pricing claims to survive.
April 30, 2025
Spring has sprung for appellate arguments over the White House's pruning and shearing of agencies, part of a bountiful circuit calendar in May, when appeals courts will also tend to defamation drama involving a pro golfer, antitrust suits against drugmakers and hotels, and a nine-figure patent verdict against Apple Inc.
April 22, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked to participate in the Ninth Circuit argument for an appeal from Las Vegas casino-hotel guests accusing the operators of using software to inflate room rates, the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court.
January 01, 2025
Attorneys who advise real estate firms are keeping a close eye on how antitrust law is applied to the real estate market as the use of revenue-management tools and pricing algorithms becomes widespread among their clients.
December 19, 2024
Las Vegas casino hotels urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday not to revive the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court, in a brief that took direct aim at the Justice Department's amicus intervention in the room rate lawsuit.
October 25, 2024
The Justice Department is using the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court to argue that just because an algorithm only set "starting points" doesn't make its use legal, in a Ninth Circuit amicus brief backing efforts to revive a room rate lawsuit against Las Vegas casino hotels.