* Generally anyone that purchased from someone other than the manufacturer (Defendant) is an indirect purchaser.
Settlement Amount: $33,625,000
Damage Period:
January 1, 1997 through February 28, 2011
Class Members:
Entities in an “Eligible Jurisdiction” (listed below) that purchased liquid aluminum sulfate, not for resale, which was manufactured, produced or supplied by Defendants or their unnamed co-conspirators from January 1, 1997 through February 28, 2011.
Eligible Jurisdictions (States):
AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, HI, IL, IA, KS, ME, MA, MI, MN, MS, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WV, and WI
Background:
Plaintiffs claim that the Defendants participated in a conspiracy to allocate territories and/or not to compete for each other’s historical business by rigging bids, allocating customers and fixing, stabilizing, and maintaining the price of Alum sold in the United States from January 1, 1997 to at least February 28, 2011 in violation of the federal antitrust laws resulting in artificially inflated prices for Alum.
Defendants:
1) American Securities
2) C&S Chemicals
3) Chemtrade Chemicals Corporation
4) Chemtrade Chemicals
5) US
Chemtrade Logistics Inc.
6) Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund
7) Chemtrade Solutions
8) General Chemical Corporation
9) General Chemical Performance Products
10) GenTek Inc.
11) GEO Specialty Chemicals
12) Kemira Chemicals
13) Southern Ionics (SII)
14) USALCO
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