June 13, 2011
Sanyo Consumer Electronics Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and other defendants in multidistrict litigation over an alleged price fixing conspiracy argued Thursday that MetroPCS Wireless Inc.'s California complaint should be dismissed because it was filed more than four years after the end of the alleged conspiracy.
May 17, 2011
A California federal judge accepted Samsung SDI Co. Ltd.'s guilty plea Tuesday in a case alleging a global conspiracy to fix prices on color display tubes used in computer monitors, the first such deal resulting from the government's cartel investigation.
May 11, 2011
A California federal judge on Monday turned aside arguments by Sharp Corp. and other defendants in the thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel price-fixing multidistrict litigation that the case should be stayed, dismissed or transferred because some plaintiffs allegedly ignored arbitration agreements.
April 25, 2011
Sharp Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. asked a California federal judge on Friday to trim Dell Inc.'s New York state law antitrust claims from a multidistrict litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix prices of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels.
February 23, 2011
A California federal judge overseeing the liquid crystal display antitrust multidistrict litigation ordered a closed review Tuesday of documents from European and Japanese investigations into allegations that Hitachi Ltd. engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy with other LCD makers.
December 16, 2010
A federal judge has postponed ruling on claims against AU Optronics Corp. in the multidistrict litigation alleging a $500 million price-fixing scheme in the thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel market until after a parallel criminal case against the company goes to trial in late 2011.