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2025-12-29T19:15:32+00:00

Varsity Brands Monopolization

Hartley LLP and its co-counsel reached an $82.5 million settlement Varsity Brands (consisting of Varsity Brands, LLC, Varsity Spirit, LLC, and Varsity Spirit Fashion & Supplies, LLC), its founder, Jeff Webb and Bain Capital for abusing its monopoly power in the market for cheer competitions. The settlement returns a substantial portion of the money Varsity took from its victim families and brings important structural changes to encourage competition.

2021-09-24T17:44:50+00:00

UCSD Health

San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP has filed a class action complaint against UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of the University of California San Diego, related to a data breach that compromised the personal information of patients throughout the healthcare system.

2020-06-22T20:47:41+00:00

Textbook Publishers Price Fixing

San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP filed a complaint earlier this month against major higher education textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Inc., McGraw Hill LLC, Pearson Education, and Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (collectively, the “Publishers”) for fixing the prices of higher education course materials and suppressing the secondary market for students seeking to resell their course materials.

2025-12-29T19:18:14+00:00

Jackson Hewitt No-Poach Case Settlement Obtains Preliminary Approval

Hartley LLP and its co-lead counsel settled one of the only intra-brand no-poach antitrust case ever brought to a successful conclusion. In the face of several other similar cases being dismissed in other courts, Hartley LLP obtained a remarkable result for Jackson Hewitt tax preparers of full single damages in the settlement.

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