If you or your company suffered monetary loss or damages from a group boycott antitrust scheme, you may be entitled to money from a group boycott class action lawsuit or settlement.
A team of class action lawyers and antitrust attorneys is investigating potential antitrust class action lawsuit cases of individuals and/or businesses who claim to have been harmed by a group boycott.
A group boycott (or concerted refusal to deal) is an agreement by two or more companies (the “boycotting companies”) to not do business with one or more targeted individuals or businesses (or to do business with them only on certain less favorable terms).
In other words, the boycotting companies in a group boycott conspire to restrict the ability of someone to compete with them for particular customers or markets. A group boycott is a type of refusal to deal which can have the effect of preventing entry of a new competitor into a market or shutting an existiing competitor out of a market.
Group Boycott Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
Group boycott antitrust class action lawsuit and settlement cases potentially being investigated include claims involving individuals or businesses who suffered monetary loss or damages from an unlawful group boycott, including :
- Boycotts to prevent a firm from entering a market
- Boycotts to disadvantage an existing competitor
- Boycotts to terminate existing business relationships
- Boycotts used to implement an illegal price-fixing agreement
- Boycotts targeting “price cutters”
- Refusal by a trade association to admit new members
- Refusal by a standard setting organization to certify a product/service
- Others boycotts that, without justification, restric competition
- Other group boycott lawsuit claims
In general, a company may by itself refuse to do business with another company, but an agreement or conspiracy among competitors not to do business with certain individuals or businesses may be an illegal boycott.
A group boycott can be a per se violation of antitrust law where the boycotting companies control a resource (i.e., a facility, access or supply to a market) that a targeted competitor requires in order to compete and conspire to withhold the resource in a market where one or more of the boycotting companies hold a dominant position or has market power.
If you or your company were harmed by a group boycott, you may be entitled to recover compensation from a group boycott antitrust class action lawsuit case or settlement claim. Contact an antitrust class action lawyer to request a free case review.
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