( May 22, 2026, 23:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Manufactured home tenants filed a brief opposing mobile home community managers' motion to dismiss their second amended US antitrust complaint, arguing that their most recent complaint has addressed issues the court previously identified. First, the second amended complaint adds allegations based on cooperation materials from settling defendant Murex Properties, which demonstrates defendants and their agents communicated directly with competitors in the same local markets to exchange competitively sensitive lot rent pricing information in advance of annual rent increases, the brief filed in the Northern District of Illinois said. The complaint also amends the relevant geographic to no longer rely on a national market, and adds "practical substitutability allegations" that mobile home lot renters generally do not view lots outside their regional market as substitutes due to constraints imposed by life such as work, family, and others, the plaintiffs said.See attached file....
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