Las Vegas hotels defeat price-fixing class action over room rates
The plaintiffs had not shown that the hotels had made any agreement with each other to fix prices
A U.S. judge has thrown out a proposed consumer class-action lawsuit accusing a group of major Las Vegas hotels of sharing price information through a third-party platform in order to charge artificially higher room rental rates.
The consumer plaintiffs last year sued Wynn Resorts, Caesars, Treasure Island and others, alleging they used a revenue platform by tech company Cendyn to unlawfully coordinate on room prices, in violation of U.S. antitrust law.
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