Legal Opinion
Romero v. Philip Morris Inc.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 25, 2010No. 31,433PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHÁVEZ, Justice.
{1} In this class action lawsuit, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants engaged in an agreement to fix the price of cigarettes from 1993 to 2000. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Defendants, because although Plaintiffs offered evidence of parallel pricing, they failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether any evidence, in addition to the parallel pricing, tended to exclude independent conduct on Defendants’ part, as required by federal substantive law. On appeal, the Court of Appeals rejected the federal “plus factor”…
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