Antitrust laws are designed to combat restraints of trade, monopolies and other anti-competitive behavior, including price-fixing. Gilman and Pastor, LLP prosecutes antitrust cases on behalf of consumers and businesses injured by unfair trade practices and anti-competitive conduct such as price-fixing, market allocation and tying arrangements. The Firm has extensive experience in antitrust cases with both federal and state deceptive trade practice and antitrust laws.

The Firm is committed to prosecuting antitrust cases for clients to ensure that markets remain competitive so that businesses and consumers can purchase the best possible goods and services at the lowest competitive prices. Our attorneys have extensive backgrounds in law, economics and complex litigation necessary to help consumers and businesses injured by violations of antitrust law.

If you believe that you are a victim of unfair practices of anti-competitive behavior, or if you want more information about an antitrust case, please contact us for a free evaluation of your case.

Illegal Drug Price Fixing Victims
We are investigating illegal price-fixing agreements between drug manufacturers aimed at keeping cheaper, generic pharmaceuticals off the market. As a result of these anticompetitive agreements, consumers are forced to pay artificially higher prices for important medication.

Com Data Class Action
We are investigating allegations against Comdata, owner of a monopoly credit card system used at truck stops throughout the U.S.

The allegations center on claims that Comdata has harmed competition by using its market dominance to impair the ability of rival card issuers to challenge Comdata's monopoly, resulting in independent truck stops, such as Pilot, Petro, and Travel Centers of America, having to pay millions of dollars in excessive fees. These fees are passed onto truckers and consumers.

Carbon Brokers and Collectors
We are investigating claims of price-fixing and conspiracy relating to the emerging new futures markets, called carbon exchanges.

These exchanges trade in "carbon credits," not only in advance of proposed Cap and Trade legislation in the U.S., but where such regulations exist in Europe.

Most major power plants and factories anticipate being part of a legally binding scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon trading is the trading of greenhouse gas reduction credits as defined in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol of the Climate Change convention. If too many allowances have been issued, the carbon price will fall and could even hit zero, making the whole scheme collapse.

Refined Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation
We are investigating claims involving price-fixing of gasoline in the United States. Allegations have surfaced that CITGO Petroleum Corporation and other major oil refinery corporations in the U.S. conspired with OPEC to fix the price of gasoline in the United States.

Dynamic Access Random Memory (DRAM)
Gilman and Pastor was appointed as Lead Counsel in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to represent purchasers of DRAM and products containing DRAM, and serves on the National Executive Committee. Manufacturers of Dynamic Access Random Memory (DRAM), including Samsung, Hynix, and others, engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to inflate prices of the memory products which are used in computer monitors, notebooks, televisions, mobile phones, and various electronics. Manufacturers, sellers, and consumers of DRAM-containing products all paid higher prices as a result of this price-fixing conspiracy.

LCD Price-Fixing Litigation (N.D. Cal.)
The world’s largest manufacturers of liquid crystal display (LCD) products, LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa, engaged in collusive behavior to inflate the process of these products. The three companies worked in concert to set prices on thin-film transistor LCDs, which are used in computer monitors, notebooks, televisions, mobile phones, and various electronics. Manufacturers, sellers, and consumers of LCD products all paid higher prices as a result of this price-fixing conspiracy.