A group of companies that lease land for mobile homes convinced a federal judge to dismiss for now a case accusing them of illegally raising rental prices of lots across the US.
Judge Franklin U. Valderrama of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in a Thursday opinion granted defendants, including Hometown America Management LLC, Inspire Communities LLC, and Kingsley Management Corp., their motion to dismiss without prejudice.
The plaintiffs, he said, failed to plead a price-fixing conspiracy and define a plausible market, a threshold issue in antitrust cases.
“Such varied rent increases, while done during ...
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