New Decision Supports Tougher Standard for Class Certification in Antitrust Actions

6 January 2009
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This client memo discusses a case involved in an alleged conspiracy among manufacturers of a chemical used primarily in the pulp and paper industry, where the Third Circuit joins several other courts of appeals in requiring antitrust plaintiffs to demonstrate at the class certification stage that they can prove at trial the impact of an alleged antitrust conspiracy on all class members.