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.
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.
May 24, 2024
Claims that companies in the same industry are using software middlemen to fix prices are percolating in federal courts around the country, with cases targeting major operators in residential real estate, hospitality and health insurance, among other areas.
May 13, 2024
A real estate investment trust seeking out of the D.C. attorney general's rental algorithm price-fixing suit pointed the superior court judge to last week's decision tossing what it said are extremely similar allegations against a group of Las Vegas hotels.
May 10, 2024
A Nevada federal judge has permanently tossed a proposed class action that accused two software companies and multiple hotel operators of using an algorithm software in a price-fixing scheme for hotel room prices on the Las Vegas Strip.
April 26, 2024
A Las Vegas hotel price-fixing suit against Blackstone and others has survived the private equity firm's motion to dismiss, with a Nevada federal judge ruling the plaintiffs had shown enough to allege Blackstone was in control of one of the target hotels, the Cosmopolitan Hotel, at the time of the alleged scheme.
October 25, 2023
A Nevada federal judge has ruled plaintiffs failed to show any indication hotels on the Las Vegas Strip agreed on a software-based scheme to artificially inflate room prices, dismissing the proposed class action.
July 11, 2023
A Nevada federal magistrate judge rejected a bid to appoint interim counsel in a proposed class action accusing several Las Vegas hotel casino corporations of using a third-party algorithm to price-gouge consumers for hotel room costs, ruling on Tuesday that appointing interim counsel at this point of the suit isn't needed.
March 28, 2023
MGM Resorts has asked a Nevada federal judge to dismiss it from a suit accusing casino-resort owners of colluding to gouge customers on pricing for the majority of their mega-hotels along the Las Vegas Strip, saying the guests who sued fail to show there's a conspiracy.