September 26, 2016
Lafarge North America Inc. has agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle allegations from gypsum board drywall purchasers that it participated in a conspiracy to fix prices for the building material, according to a Friday filing in a Pennsylvania federal court.
August 19, 2016
A Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday denied a bid by home builders to appeal a ruling dismissing their claims that drywall makers conspired to fix prices and eliminate jobs during a two-year period, saying their factual allegations were exceptionally sparse.
July 06, 2016
A group of drywall manufacturers urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday to deny a motion that they argued would improperly allow seven new class representatives to be shoehorned into ongoing multidistrict price-fixing litigation.
April 25, 2016
Drywall manufacturer Continental Building Products Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday to let it leave multidistrict price-fixing litigation, arguing that accusations against the company fail to connect it to an alleged conspiracy and implausibly suppose it decided to illegally fix prices after litigation began and became publicly known.
February 18, 2016
CertainTeed ducked multidistrict price-fixing litigation in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday when a judge said the drywall manufacturer proved it didn't communicate with competitors before raising its prices 35 percent in 2012.
March 16, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday tentatively approved four deals to resolve claims in multidistrict litigation regarding alleged price-fixing of drywall building materials, with USG Corp. agreeing to pay $48 million and TIN Inc. agreeing to pay $7 million.
October 14, 2014
A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday ordered CertainTeed Gypsum Inc. to produce its antitrust compliance policy in a multidistrict litigation over alleged price fixing, despite arguments from the drywall company that the information is protected by attorney-client privilege.
May 14, 2014
Reminding the parties that electronic discovery had replaced the use of "smoke signals," the Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation alleging a plot to hike up prices of drywall on Monday ordered both sides to cough up factual information in the case supporting their respective positions.
April 09, 2013
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Monday created a new MDL in Pennsylvania federal court to handle antitrust class actions alleging Georgia-Pacific LLC, CertainTeed Corp., American Gypsum Co. LLC and several others conspired to jack up drywall prices.