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In the decades before founding SCL, our partners led or advised on the following representations, among many others:
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SCL attorneys helped secure a landmark $3 billion settlement, which included injunctive relief valued by the district court between $25 million and $87 billion and required Visa and Mastercard to repeal the core restraint at issue, their policy of tying debit card acceptance to credit card acceptance.*
SCL attorneys helped lead this decade-long litigation, resulting in more than $1.2 billion for plaintiffs. In a case referred to by the court as “irrefutably complex,” SCL attorneys represented businesses that purchased airfreight services directly from defendants, many of the world’s largest airlines. The case alleged a global conspiracy to unlawfully inflate the prices charged to ship goods.*
SCL attorneys were co-lead counsel in Discover’s damages suit against Visa and Mastercard for their exclusionary rules that restricted Discover’s ability to enter into business arrangements with Visa and Mastercard member banks. After defeating a summary judgment motion by defendants and being awarded collateral estoppel (related to a prior Department of Justice case), Discover received a $2.75 billion settlement.*
SCL attorneys served as co-lead counsel in litigation against Wells Fargo and National General Insurance Company over allegations that they force-placed duplicative and unnecessary insurance on auto loan customers in violation of federal racketeering and state competition laws. Plaintiffs obtained $432 million in settlements plus substantial relief for Wells Fargo customers.*
SCL attorneys led a broad coalition of the largest merchants in the United States, including Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, the Gap and Lowe’s, among others, that led the industry-wide objections to a $7.25 billion settlement, resulting in the vacatur of that agreement in the Second Circuit.*
SCL attorneys served as co-lead counsel and secured settlements exceeding $118 million on behalf of U.S. contact lens purchasers. The settlements resolved an expansive antitrust class action against the four dominant contact lens manufacturers and the largest nationwide distributor for imposing minimum retail prices for many popular brands.*
SCL attorneys led teams that tried two antitrust cases for unreasonable restraints of trade and group boycotts in these medical benefit manager cases, obtaining a $40 million jury verdict, where the jury awarded more damages than was requested. Our lawyers also represented clients in follow-on cases that resulted in substantial settlements.*
As court-appointed interim lead counsel, SCL attorneys reached a settlement worth up to $28 million for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and a class of health plans alleging that so-called Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli and his former companies illegally monopolized the market for Daraprim. The once-affordable lifesaving drug increased in price by more than 4,000% under Shkreli’s leadership.*
In this case, concerning claims of anticompetitive price bundling and tying, SCL attorneys were part of the lead team that tried a preliminary injunction motion and obtained a $200 million settlement for a J&J subsidiary.*
SCL attorneys secured a settlement of nearly $7.2 million in a class action against a Florida cancer treatment center and its president for alleged monopolization of oncology services in southwest Florida.*
SCL attorneys reached a seven-figure settlement in an antitrust class action for plaintiffs who bought or sold gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures and options on such contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Commodity Exchange.*
SCL attorneys served as lead defense counsel in a putative nationwide antitrust class action for fluid-handling equipment manufacturer Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota Inc. The allegations included unlawful business acquisitions and boycott, exclusive-dealing and monopolization conspiracies involving the sale and distribution of spray foam insulation equipment. SCL attorneys obtained the dismissal of all claims with prejudice.*
As part of the executive committee, SCL attorneys recovered more than $430 million in settlements for a proposed class of plaintiffs that purchased polyurethane foam directly from the defendants. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to unlawfully fix the prices of the raw material incorporated into bedding, furniture cushions, automotive parts, shipping products, medical devices, footwear and toys.*
SCL attorneys sued this pharmacy benefit manager for wrongly terminating their client from the PBM’s network. The case was successfully settled with the pharmacy’s readmission into the network.*
SCL attorneys are part of the court-appointed plaintiffs’ steering committee in an antitrust class action against the largest owners of local television stations in the United States, with revenues exceeding $28 billion. Our team filed one of the first complaints following the Department of Justice investigation into potential antitrust violations in local television ad sales. Plaintiffs reached settlements with CBS, Fox and Cox Media for a total of $48 million. Litigation remains ongoing.*
SCL attorneys represented one of the world’s largest energy companies in a direct antitrust action against Union Pacific Railroad Company and BNSF Railway Company for allegedly violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act by imposing fuel surcharges on rail shipments.*
SCL attorneys successfully represented News Corp. in the antitrust review of its $5.6 billion acquisition of Chris-Craft Industries, an owner of television broadcast stations throughout the United States, and its sale of Fox Family Worldwide to the Walt Disney Company.*
SCL attorneys serve as court-appointed co-lead counsel for direct purchasers of Merck’s mumps vaccine. Plaintiffs allege that Merck unlawfully monopolized the U.S. market by engaging in a decade-long scheme to exclude competing manufacturers. In July 2023, plaintiffs defeated Merck’s summary judgment motion. Litigation remains ongoing.
SCL attorneys represent a proposed class of individuals and entities in the United States compensated for broiler grow-out services by major poultry companies, including Tyson Foods, Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, Perdue Farms, Inc., Koch Foods, Inc. and Sanderson Farms, Inc. Plaintiffs have reached settlements totaling $169 million. Litigation remains ongoing.
SCL attorneys served as lead antitrust counsel and strategic adviser to an incipient joint venture of many leading merchants, including Walmart, Target, Lowe’s and Publix, among others. Leadership by SCL attorneys helped broker the first merchant-owned payment network in the United States.*
This case concerned the monopolization of a television broadcast market through exclusive contracts with virtually all major television broadcast networks. The case successfully resulted in our client securing one of the network contracts.*
SCL attorneys led the successful defense of the groundbreaking Fair Food Program, which has resulted in fair working conditions for farmworkers in Florida and other states, against a group boycott claim brought by Del Monte.*
SCL attorneys led the successful prosecution of Linkable’s breach of contract claim against Mastercard.*
SCL attorneys successfully secured a $5 million settlement in a breach of contract arbitration for the client.*
SCL attorneys led a group of merchant challengers to Visa’s rules that violated the Durbin Amendment, Section 1075 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That advocacy resulted in a Federal Reserve clarification of the Durbin regulations and an FTC enforcement action against Visa’s rules.*
SCL attorneys co-led a team that successfully advocated against the merger to the Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission and 23 state attorneys general, arguing it violated the Clayton and Communications acts. As a result, the proposed merger was not consummated.*
SCL attorneys successfully represented an objector to this transaction, resulting in the Justice Department and European Union challenging the deal, which culminated in a critical divestiture.*
After successfully suing CareCore for unreasonable restraints of trade, SCL attorneys were retained to lead the defense of its merger with MedSolutions before the Justice Department, which opted not to challenge the deal.*
SCL attorneys represented StubHub before several state attorneys general and the Justice Department regarding restraints that Ticketmaster and the National Football League put in place over the resale of NFL tickets. As a result of this advocacy, policies that precluded the resale of these tickets under their face value were abandoned.*
SCL attorneys represented News America Marketing in its successful acquisition of Heritage Media.*
SCL attorneys defended the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board in FTC Part 3 administrative proceedings. The parties ultimately settled the dispute with the commission denying complainant counsel’s motion for partial summary judgment on a key defense.*
*Results obtained prior to forming SCL.
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