Civil Litigation,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Dec. 15, 2021
As trial nears end, capacitor antitrust case settles
Tuesday was intended to be a long day of trial, with the defense planning to call three final witnesses and plaintiffs’ counsel planning to cross-examine them as well as the defense’s expert witness. Instead the jurors were discharged.
A settlement was reached between a class of plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants in a multi-year litigation over alleged conspiracy to fix prices of capacitors, both sides announced in court Tuesday.
Plaintiffs' counsel told U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco that an agreement had been reached that morning between the class of more than 1,800 U.S. compa...
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