Hotel-Casinos Win as Ninth Cir. Affirms Collusion Dismissal (1)

Caesars Entertainment Inc., Wynn Resorts Holdings, and other Las Vegas hotel-casinos prevailed Friday in an appeal alleging they collectively used algorithmic software to collude on prices, as the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that dismissed the case.

The opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adds to just a handful of rulings involving allegations that algorithmic price-setting databases are the culprit behind price-fixing agreements.

Consumer plaintiffs who stayed at various Vegas hotels failed to allege an antitrust conspiracy by the hotels merely for delegating their pricing decisions to Cendyn Group’s Rainmaker revenue ...