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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The private lawyers who have recruited cities around the country to try to collect local taxes on video streaming services have asked a federal court to make their Ohio lawsuit a class action on behalf of every municipality in the state.
In a recent filing, lawyers at DiCello Levitt Gutzler, Nix Patterson and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky told U.S. District Judge James Gwin their lawsuit on behalf of the city of Maple Heights is “tailor-made for class certification” because it presents the basic questions at issue in every similar case. The lawyers claim Netflix, Hulu and other streaming content providers should collect a 5% tax from viewers under Ohio’s cable-television franchise law.
Alaska Files $1B Lawsuit Against 21 Poultry Businesses March 9, 2021
Alaska has sued 21 businesses involved in the poultry industry, claiming the businesses operated a cartel and illegally inflated the price of most chicken sold in the state.
The Alaska Department of Law filed a consumer-protection lawsuit late last month in state court seeking more than $1 billion from the nation’s largest poultry producers, distributors and pricers, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The lawsuit also asks for damages, restitution, attorney fees and costs.
The lawsuit involves broiler chickens, which account for 98% of all chicken sold in the U.S.
Maria Bahr, an assistant attorney general and department spokeswoman, said the state alleges a cartel of corporations “engaged in an illegal conspiracy to restrain production and manipulate pricing to artificially inflate the price of broiler chicken throughout the United States, including Alaska.”
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Alaska seeks over $1B in lawsuit against poultry industry
March 7, 2021
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) Alaska has sued 21 businesses involved in the poultry industry, claiming the businesses operated a cartel and illegally inflated the price of most chicken sold in the state.
The Alaska Department of Law filed a consumer-protection lawsuit late last month in state court seeking more than $1 billion from the nation’s largest poultry producers, distributors and pricers, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday. The lawsuit also asks for damages, restitution, attorney fees and costs.
The lawsuit involves broiler chickens, which account for 98% of all chicken sold in the U.S.
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