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Celestron, telescope manufacturers seek judgment on US price-fixing case

( May 6, 2025, 12:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Celestron, Synta Taiwan, Suzhou Synta and other telescope manufacturers told a US judge that a putative direct purchaser class's complaint over alleged price-fixing promotes "a scattershot mix of antitrust theories" that are "simply a mirage." Each telescope manufacturer or distributor alleged to have orchestrated a decades-long price-fixing conspiracy, to have allocated markets, and to have monopolized the US consumer telescope industry only engaged in legitimate, independent business activities, the defendants said in a motion for summary judgment filed to the US Northern District of California. The direct purchasers can't establish any per se violation of Sherman Act Section 1, define no relevant market or monopoly power under Sherman Act Section 2, and pursuant to those failures, their Clayton Act Section 7 and California state law claims also fail, the filing said.See attached document:...

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