Meatpackers Constrain Beef Supplies, Artificially Inflate Domestic Beef Prices SAN DIEGO (September 8, 2020): San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP was appointed as co-lead counsel in its class action complaint against the country’s largest meat suppliers for conspiring to constrain beef supplies and for artificially inflating domestic beef prices. Cargill, Inc., JBS USA Food [...]
SAN DIEGO (August 26, 2020): Hartley LLP attorneys, with lead class counsel Lieff Cabraser and Fine Kaplan and Black, obtained final approval of a $48,950,000 settlement in a class action regarding the use of “no-poach” agreements by the country’s largest railway equipment suppliers in an effort to reduce competition and suppress employee compensation. Each [...]
SAN DIEGO (August 20, 2020): Hartley LLP attorney Fatima Brizuela was recognized in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch in the practice area category “Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs.” Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch recognizes lawyers who are earlier in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in [...]
SAN DIEGO (June 24, 2020): Hartley LLP Founder Jason Hartley was named to the Daily Journal’s list of Top Antitrust Attorneys for 2020 and was featured in the publication’s June 24 issue. Hartley was one of a select number of attorneys named to the statewide list which features “a mix of lawyers from the [...]
Hartley LLP filed a class action complaint on behalf of direct purchasers of packaged beef products from the country’s largest beef meatpackers, Cargill, National Beef, Tyson and JBS. The complaint, filed in the District of Minnesota, alleges the defendants engaged in anticompetitive behavior at both ends of their product lines in order to artificially [...]
Zoom’s Inability to Secure Client Information Exposes Confidential Information of Class Members SAN DIEGO (June 1, 2020): San Diego-based law firm Hartley LLP filed a class action complaint last month against online video communications platform Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) for the platform’s negligent data security practices which exposed the confidential information of its users. [...]
Publishers Eradicate Secondary Market; Students Required to Pay Inflated Prices for Course Materials SAN DIEGO (May 28, 2020): 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 [...]
San Diego. March 30, 2020. Hartley LLP Partners Jason Hartley and Jason Lindner were named to Thomson Reuters’ list of “Super Lawyers” for 2020. Super Lawyers recognizes outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual Super Lawyers selections are made using [...]
March 9, 2020. In an order dated March 9, 2020, the Honorable Donetta Ambrose of the Western District of Pennsylvania denied defendants’ several motions to dismiss in In re Diisocyanates Antitrust Litigation. The case alleges a broad price fixing conspiracy among several manufacturers of polyurethane input chemicals colloquially referred to as MDI and TDI. Defendants [...]
BLS PHARMA ALLEGES INOVIO’S BREACH OF CONTRACT OBSTRUCTED ABILITY TO DELIVER TESTOSTERONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR HYPOGONADISM AND THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY SANTA ANA: (January 7, 2020): BLS Pharma, Inc. filed a complaint late last month against Genetronics, Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ-INO), Case No. 30-2019-01119045, for breaching a contract to supply a needle-free injection system [...]
