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Covington's antitrust litigation group has successfully litigated many complex civil and criminal antitrust matters, including nationwide class actions, consolidated multidistrict cases, short-fuse preliminary injunction proceedings, and appeals up through the United States Supreme Court. Our experience encompasses jury and bench trials in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies, and has involved such diverse industries as communications, energy, financial services, life sciences, sports, and transportation. We combine industry expertise with first-class litigation skills to develop innovative and efficient solutions to litigation challenges.
Representative Matters
- JPMorganChase and Bank of America in putative antitrust class actions involving credit cards and ATM fees.
- GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma in patent/antitrust litigation.
- Seven teaching hospitals in the Medical Residents Antitrust Litigation, where we developed an integrated legislative and litigation strategy that led to dismissal of a class action antitrust claim. Dismissal was affirmed by the D.C. Circuit in June 2006.
- Solutia and Flexsys in state and federal class actions involving rubber chemicals price-fixing claims.
- The National Football League in antitrust suits challenging League practices on collective bargaining, franchise relocations, and television marketing.
- PPL Corp. in a half-dozen private suits involving wholesale electricity markets in California, the Pacific Northwest, and the mid-Atlantic states. Motions to dismiss or for summary judgment were granted in each of these cases.
- Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in a California antitrust and unfair trade practices lawsuit involving authorized generic pharmaceuticals.
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