Campbell Hausfeld

Hausfeld: Google faces new multibillion-pound lawsuit from UK consumers for stifling competition in the search engine market, causing price rises across the UK economy

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

The claim seeks approximately £7bn in redress on behalf of UK consumers from Google for breaches of competition law in shutting out competition in mobile search.

Key Points: 
  • The claim seeks approximately £7bn in redress on behalf of UK consumers from Google for breaches of competition law in shutting out competition in mobile search.
  • Google uses its market dominance to raise the prices paid by advertisers for prominence on the Google search page, according to the claim.
  • Those increased prices are systematically passed on to consumers, who are charged higher prices for the goods and services they buy.
  • Google’s role in driving prices higher has happened by stealth, but is finally laid bare in the legal claim.

DiCello Levitt, Hausfeld File Significant Lawsuit Against Corporate Landlords Over Nationwide Price Fixing Scheme Affecting Residents of Manufactured Homes

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Friday, September 1, 2023

Many residents are senior citizens, veterans, and people with disabilities,” said Hausfeld LLP Partner Reena Gambhir.

Key Points: 
  • Many residents are senior citizens, veterans, and people with disabilities,” said Hausfeld LLP Partner Reena Gambhir.
  • The case is Ronald Kazmirzak and Carla Hajek v. Datacomp Appraisal Systems Inc., et al.
  • 1:23-cv-06715 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
  • If you live in a manufactured home and are facing drastic rent increases please contact: DiCello Levitt at [email protected] or 646.933.1000 or Hausfeld at [email protected] or 202.540.7200.

Hausfeld Joins the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to Call on Member States to Take Action After the First Guidance on Children's Rights and the Environment, with a Focus on Climate Change, is Issued

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Monday, August 28, 2023

26, an authoritative guidance to Member States on what they must do to uphold children’s rights to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

Key Points: 
  • 26, an authoritative guidance to Member States on what they must do to uphold children’s rights to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
  • Climate change is a global threat to human rights, with children bearing the brunt of its consequences.
  • The General Comment addresses the rights that are already breached or under threat from environmental degradation and climate change.
  • It also clarifies the obligation of Member States, and the role of the business sector, in upholding and protecting these rights.

Hausfeld & Co LLP: Amazon and Apple Face Multimillion-Pound UK Legal Action Alleging the Two Tech Giants Colluded to Increase Prices of Apple Products

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

In return, Apple offered Jeff Bezos’s firm preferential wholesale prices on all Apple and Beats products, which it could sell directly to customers via its own retail business.

Key Points: 
  • In return, Apple offered Jeff Bezos’s firm preferential wholesale prices on all Apple and Beats products, which it could sell directly to customers via its own retail business.
  • The claim alleges that, by January 2019, almost all independent merchants of Apple and Beats products disappeared from the Amazon marketplace as a result of Apple and Amazon’s collusion.
  • Amazon also benefited, as the deal enabled it to sell more Apple and Beats products at higher prices directly to consumers.
  • As a result of these agreements, customers paid (and continue to pay) higher prices for Apple and Beats products when purchasing them from Apple, Amazon or other retailers.

Hausfeld appoints Megan Jones as Co-Chair of U.S. Antitrust/Competition Practice

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Monday, March 20, 2023

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, global litigation firm Hausfeld announced Partner Megan Jones’s appointment to Co-Chair of the firm’s U.S.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, March 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, global litigation firm Hausfeld announced Partner Megan Jones’s appointment to Co-Chair of the firm’s U.S.
  • In this role, Megan joins Partner Scott Martin in guiding the strategic direction of the firm’s globally recognized practice to support Hausfeld’s position as the leading plaintiffs’ antitrust firm.
  • As a founding partner of Hausfeld, Megan has helped steer the firm from its outset in 2008, and presently serves on the firm’s Management Committee.
  • “Megan has the reputation and experience necessary to lead our practice and group of talented attorneys at such an exciting time.

Hausfeld Announces Six Senior Promotions Globally

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Amongst other claims, she has been instrumental in bringing and running the opt-out collective actions against Qualcomm, Apple and Google - the latter two for their alleged abusive conduct in relation to the Apple App and Google Play Stores respectively

Key Points: 
  • Amongst other claims, she has been instrumental in bringing and running the opt-out collective actions against Qualcomm, Apple and Google - the latter two for their alleged abusive conduct in relation to the Apple App and Google Play Stores respectively
    We are also pleased to announce 18 further promotions: nine senior associate promotions in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, and one senior attorney and seven senior staff attorney promotions in the U.S.
  • The 2023 promotions reflect the advancement of some 14% of our attorneys globally.
  • In Germany, Stephan Nitsios and Johannes Wick were promoted to senior associate as was Jantina Hiemstra in the Netherlands.
  • In Germany, Juve awarded Hausfeld as competition law firm of the year in 2022, while Legal 500 Germany continues to rank Hausfeld as a top competition law firm.

Hausfeld: £900 Million UK Consumer Claim Against Amazon Alleging Breaches of Competition Law Officially Filed at Specialist Court

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Julie Hunter, the consumer rights advocate leading the opt-out collective claim on behalf of more than 50 million UK consumers, filed the claim against Amazon at the specialist tribunal yesterday, seeking compensation of around 900 million in total.

Key Points: 
  • Julie Hunter, the consumer rights advocate leading the opt-out collective claim on behalf of more than 50 million UK consumers, filed the claim against Amazon at the specialist tribunal yesterday, seeking compensation of around 900 million in total.
  • In accordance with Competition Appeal Tribunal rules, the collective action is being filed on behalf of all potential claimants without them needing to actively opt into the claim.
  • Ms Hunter is represented by leading disputes-only law firm, Hausfeld, and by Marie Demetriou KC, Robert ODonoghue KC and Sarah Love of Brick Court Chambers.
  • To learn more about the UK Buy Box Claim, and register for updates, please visit www.ukbuyboxclaim.com .

Hausfeld, Berger Montague, Lieff Cabraser, and Justice Catalyst File Federal Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against Alleged Rental Housing Cartel

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The Lessor Defendants are some of the largest owners and managers of rental real estate in the United States.

Key Points: 
  • The Lessor Defendants are some of the largest owners and managers of rental real estate in the United States.
  • We look forward to vindicating our clients' rights in this important federal antitrust litigation.
  • Berger Montague pioneered the antitrust class action more than five decades ago and prides itself on successfully representing plaintiffs in some of the most important class action cases in the country.
  • Since our founding in 1972, Lieff Cabraser has litigated and resolved hundreds of class action lawsuits and thousands of individual cases.

Hausfeld & Co LLP: Amazon Faces £900m Demand to Compensate Tens of Millions of UK Customers, as Lawsuit Accuses E-Commerce Giant of Unlawfully Favouring Its Own Product Offers

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

The claim will seek damages from Amazon estimated in the region of 900 million.

Key Points: 
  • The claim will seek damages from Amazon estimated in the region of 900 million.
  • Anyone who lives in the UK and made purchases on Amazon.co.uk or on the Amazon app since October 2016 is an eligible member of the claimant class.
  • According to the claim, Amazon steers potential purchasers to products which are not designed to be the best offers for consumers.
  • Like countless millions of people in the UK, I often use Amazon for the convenience it offers.

Hausfeld & Co LLP: Collective Proceedings Order: Important Dates Relating to the Rights of Class Members in the Consumer Claim Bought by Liz Coll Against Google for Almost £1 Billion in Relation to the App Payments in the Google Play Store

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Liz Coll a consumer tech policy expert with over thirteen years experience campaigning for consumers rights online seeks compensation on a collective basis for affected Google Play Store users in the UK.

Key Points: 
  • Liz Coll a consumer tech policy expert with over thirteen years experience campaigning for consumers rights online seeks compensation on a collective basis for affected Google Play Store users in the UK.
  • The legal claim against Google, and the judgment released on 31 August 2022
    Most Android users download their apps through Googles Play Store.
  • When users spend money in the Google Play Store, often only a portion goes to the actual app developers.
  • Liz Coll is also advised on the claim by a consultative group with expertise and experience in competition and consumer law and payments regulation.