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Antitrust Violations

Sacramento Antitrust Violation Attorneys

Kershaw Talley Barlow

Federal and state antitrust laws are designed to protect and promote fair competition among businesses. The laws in this area prohibit price fixing and other forms of anti-competitive conduct. Competition between businesses benefits consumers by ensuring lower prices, and newer, better products, and encourages businesses to find better ways to produce and promote their products.

Consumers lose the benefits of competition when business competitors agree to:

  • Fix prices
  • Rig bids
  • Allocate (divide up) customers

Private consumers pay artificially high prices when businesses make such anti-competitive deals with each other.

Under federal law, businesses or individuals purchasing goods or services directly from the company that violated the antitrust laws are typically entitled to payment of damages. However, since most products pass through the hands of distributors, wholesalers, or retailers before reaching the consumer, most claims for damages under the federal laws can only be brought by businesses, not private consumers who paid inflated prices.

On the other hand, many state antitrust laws, including California’s, allow consumers and other end-users of products to recover damages caused by anti-competitive conduct, even if they did not purchase the goods directly from the business that violated the antitrust laws. Damages may include payment of 3 times the actual loss to the consumer (also called “treble damages”), plus court costs and attorney’s fees.

Attorneys at Kershaw Talley Barlow have played prominent roles in many antitrust violations actions on behalf of both businesses and consumers.

To contact an antitrust violations attorney at Kershaw Talley Barlow, please fill out and submit the contact form for a free and confidential case evaluation, or call us toll-free at (916) 520-6639.

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