Select Antitrust Cases
Domina Law Group is one of only a few Great Plains law firms with an interest and a practice in antitrust and unfair competition law. Antitrust and unfair competition describe domination of markets by firms with market power which they use to squeeze out new entrants or competitors.
Antitrust violations can occur when a hospital excludes other hospitals from market involvement, or a group of physicians exclude a new specialist in their practice area from market participation.
Much antitrust concern in the early 21st century centers on the huge size of corporate interests in some sectors of the American economy. In agriculture, market power and antitrust, or unfair competition, concerns are focused on domination of the seed industry by Monsanto; domination of beef markets by three packers, Tyson Fresh Meats, J.B.F. Swift, and Excel; and domination of swine markets by a handful of companies involved in pork slaughter.
Domina Law Group led efforts by representatives of America’s cattle industry in efforts to rein in antitrust activity and unfair competition in the only such case submitted to a jury in decades, winning a jury verdict of nearly $1.3 billion. The verdict was reversed on appeal, and since then Domina Law Group lawyers have participated actively, and aggressively, in efforts to reinvigorate producer-protective legislation and enforce antitrust laws.
The firm continues to actively consider and consult antitrust matters, such as:
- Pickett v. Iowa Beef Processors - 209 F.3d 1276, 1280-81 (11th Cir. 2000)
- Pickett v. Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.- 420 F.3d 1272, 1280 (11th Cir. 2005)
- Domina, Taylor - The Debilitating Effects of Concentration on Markets Affecting Agricultural Products, (2009)
