By MLex Staff ( November 19, 2024, 03:43 GMT | Insight) -- A dominance-abuse lawsuit against oil-and-gas giant Shell in China has been dropped, after the plaintiff ceased pursuing the case in the wake of more than six years of jurisdictional disputes, MLex has learned. The case marked the first time that China’s top prosecuting officers had intervened in an antitrust lawsuit. However, after the country's Supreme Court sided with the top prosecuting office, ruling in June that Shell's antitrust dispute with its local distributor Shanxi Changlin is non-arbitrable, the lawsuit lost its chance to go through substantive trial proceedings, it is understood.A dominance-abuse lawsuit against oil-and-gas giant Shell in China has been dropped, after the plaintiff ceased pursuing the case in the wake of more than six years of jurisdictional disputes, MLex has learned....
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