US judge grants hotels dismissal of US price-fixing complaint
( August 27, 2025, 12:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A US judge granted Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels and other luxury hotels their motion to dismiss a price-fixing complaint over hotel rooms filed by Illinois consumer Ryan Segal, saying that Segal's opposition to the motion "confirms his [third amended complaint] should be dismissed with prejudice because he recycles arguments this Court already rejected and miscasts settled law and his own allegations." Segal makes admissions fatal to his pleading of an agreement among the hotel defendants, of anticompetitive effects and of antitrust standing, US District Judge Joan Gottschall said in a ruling from the Northern District of Illinois. Segal does not dispute that the hotel defendants received only aggregate occupancy data from Amadeus's IT Demand360 pricing software, the ruling said.See attached document: ...
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