Antitrust Law

Girard Gibbs litigates class actions on behalf of companies and consumers who have been injured as a result of anticompetitive practices. Antitrust and unfair competition laws exist to ensure that businesses compete against each other in a reasonable and fair way. Federal and state laws prohibit anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices that harm other businesses and consumers. Examples of these unlawful, anti-competitive practices include:

Predatory pricing : A dominant company temporarily prices a product low enough to end a competitive threat from other businesses in order to protect market share.

Bid-rigging : Bidders agree in advance of the bidding process to designate a particular member to win what was intended to be a competitive bid.

Monopolization : A company dominates a market or commodity to the exclusion of others.

Lock-in : A vendor forces a customer to be dependent on the vendor for products and services, and prevents the customer from moving to another vendor without substantial switching costs.

Girard Gibbs is presently prosecuting several nationwide class action lawsuits for violations of federal and state antitrust and unfair competition laws, including In re: Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) Antitrust Litigation, In re TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation, In re International Air Transportation Surcharge Antitrust Litigation , and In Re: Digital Music Antitrust Litigation . Girard Gibbs serves in a leadership role in the In re Natural Gas Anti-Trust Litigation I, II, III & IV, a class action on behalf of California consumers who paid higher prices for natural gas as a result of alleged price-fixing and other market manipulations in the California natural gas market in 2000-01. To date, the class action has achieved settlements totaling approximately $160 million.

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