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Comment: Ninth Circuit poised to rule on disclosure of informant recordings

By Leah Nylen ( July 9, 2015, 21:54 GMT | Comment) -- The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seems likely to allow plaintiffs seeking damages from computer disk drive makers to have access to never-before disclosed recordings made by US Department of Justice informants, a decision that could have important implications for plaintiffs in future price-fixing class actions.In April 2009, John Doe, an employee at a Toshiba and Samsung joint venture that makes optical disk drives for computers, had several phone conversations with an employee at one of its rivals. Unbeknownst to Doe, that individual was taping the conversations under the direction of the FBI as part of a US criminal price-fixing investigation. ...

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