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Comment: Mastercard’s UK appeal court loss over class size tells litigants of antitrust court's power

By Simon Zekaria ( January 3, 2023, 07:01 GMT | Comment) -- Mastercard recently failed to convince UK appeal judges that around three million now-dead people should be excluded from a landmark 14 billion-pound antitrust lawsuit against it over inflated card fees. This should serve to remind litigants of the specialized competition court’s teeth when overseeing the collective-action regime.When Mastercard learned recently that it couldn't persuade appeal judges to pare down a mass UK antitrust lawsuit over inflated card fees, it received a stark message: even the dead are entitled to compensation....

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