Fujikura Ltd. and Fujikura Automotive America LLC fail to dismiss Ford Motor Co.'s allegations that they participated in a worldwide bid-rigging and price-fixing cartel in the auto parts industry that resulted in Ford paying supracompetitive prices for wire harnesses over the course of a decade due to Fujikura’s , according to a March 4 opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litig., 2014 BL 58086, E.D. Mich., 2:13-cv-13055-MOB-MKM, 3/4/14).
Judge Marianne O. Battani reasoned that, even if Ford did not buy harnesses directly from Fujikura, Ford’s allegations that ...
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