In re Online Travel Co. (OTC) Hotel Booking Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JANE J. BOYLE, District Judge.

Defendants, who include major U.S. hotel chains and online travel agencies (“OTAs”) in the United States, jointly move to dismiss this putative class action brought by consumers claiming they paid inflated prices on hotel rooms booked online. Defendants first challenge the Consolidated Amended Complaint’s (“Complaint”) (doc. 85) three antitrust law claims, which charge Defendants with engaging in an industry-wide conspiracy to uniformly adopt resale price maintenance agreements, containing most favored nation clauses,, in an effort to…