Katz v. Fidelity National Title Insurance

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated cases are eight of at least forty-five lawsuits nationwide, alleging that title-insurance companies and rating bureaus violated state and federal antitrust laws by conspiring to charge inflated rates. See In re Title Ins. Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act & Antitrust Litig., 560 F.Supp.2d 1374, 1376 (J.P.M.L.2008) (denying consolidation of twenty-five pending title-insurance antitrust cases; mentioning “at least twenty related actions”). The district court dismissed all of Appellants’ claims with prejudice. It held, first, that the filed-rate…