Justices Won’t Review Airlines’ $40M One-Size-Fits-All Deal
Law360 covers the Supreme Court’s declination of reviewing Yang v. Wortman, previously captioned In Re:Transpacific Passenger Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a $39.5 million settlement in antitrust multidistrict litigation accusing Societe Air France, Japan Airlines and other airlines of fixing prices for transpacific flights, leaving untouched a deal that was challenged for purportedly having intraclass conflicts.
The high court denied a petition for certiorari from libertarian think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute seeking to undo a $39.5 million settlement reached between passengers and airlines such as Air France, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Berhad, Singapore Airlines Ltd. and Vietnam…
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