{"id":4640,"date":"2025-03-12T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-clears-changes-to-price-discrimination-claims-against-juul-distributor\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:12:04","slug":"federal-judge-clears-changes-to-price-discrimination-claims-against-juul-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-clears-changes-to-price-discrimination-claims-against-juul-distributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Clears Changes to Price Discrimination Claims Against Juul, Distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A consultant for independent convenience store and gas station owners is allowed to add allegations to existing price discrimination claims against Juul Labs and a competitor, but the plaintiff cannot bring entirely new antitrust claims against the defendants in a case that has been pending for nearly four years, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On Monday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois split in granting a request made by the plaintiff, Power Buying Dealers USA, for leave to file a third amended complaint against the e-cigarette manufacturer and HS Wholesale to add details to an existing price discrimination claim under the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 13(a). However, Coleman took a different stance on the plaintiff&#8217;s request to add a claim that accused the defendants of engaging in a price-fixing conspiracy under Section I of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consultant for independent convenience store and gas station owners is allowed to add allegations to existing price discrimination claims against Juul Labs and a competitor, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[300,4405,349,5046,554,423,5045,5044],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-claims","tag-clears","tag-discrimination","tag-distributor","tag-federal","tag-judge","tag-juul","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}