Two significant class certification decisions were reached this week.
In a case alleging a conspiracy to suppress wages paid to Registered Nurses, the Northern District of New York certified a class of: "All persons employed by any defendant or co-conspirator to work in a hospital in the Albany MSA as an RN at any time from June 20, 2002 until the present."
In the decision - Download 72808_nurse_wages.pdf - the Court found that certification is appropriate with respect to whether there was a violation of antitrust law and whether there has been injury to the class that the Sherman Act was designed to prevent.
In a case alleging a conspiracy to fix prices of polyether polyol products, the District of Kansas certified a class of direct purchasers of polyether polyol products (with certain exclusions) from January 1, 1999 through December 31, 2004 in the United States and its territories. That decision is available here: Download 72908_polyether_polyol.pdf
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