Class actions
Christian Sande LLC dedicates extensive resources to its class action practice, representing large and small clients that have been victims of anticompetitive activity and consumer fraud by suppliers and competitors. Anticompetition can take the form of conspiracies where competitors agree to set prices in concert with one another, cartels that allocate customers and refuse to offer competitive prices and other activities that all have the same effect on their customers: higher prices that distort the free market and increase costs overall.
The U.S. antitrust laws provide recourse for companies who learn that their suppliers have engaged in anticompetitive activity. Victims of price-fixing and illegal cartels can pursue their own lawsuits to recover damages, or they can participate in a class action on behalf of themselves and other buyers to recover damages from the suppliers. To paraphrase an antitrust client:
It’s hard enough to make money in this business environment. To learn that your suppliers have fixed prices, allocated customers, broken the law and heaped costs on you, it just burns you up.
Christian Sande LLC partners with law firms in Minnesota and nationwide to launch and pursue large-scale class actions against companies that have broken the U.S. antitrust laws and distorted the free market economy.
Christian Sande has over ten years experience in antitrust class actions, representing plaintiffs alongside local and national co-counsel in the following cases:
- In re Vytorin/Zetia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation
(D. N.J.) (pending) - In re Railroad Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation
(D. DC) (pending) - In re LTL Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
(N.D. Ga.) (pending) - In re Methionine Antitrust Litigation
(N.D. Ca.) - In re Vitamins Antitrust Litigation
(D. DC) - In re Graphite Electrodes Antitrust Litigation
(E.D. Pa.) - In re NASDAQ Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation
(S.D.N.Y.)