Sentences with phrase «unlawful agreement»

Prospect also established a similarly unlawful agreement with Meriden, Conn. - based Planet Home Lending in 2012, violating RESPA and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, for which the CFPB is also ordering payment, the Bureau stated.

The Publisher Defendants and Apple implemented this unlawful agreement and combination on or before January 2010, when five of the six major book publishers of fiction and nonfiction works almost simultaneously announced that they were switching from a wholesale pricing model to an Agency model for eBook sales.

«As part of the unlawful agreements, and seeking to leverage its dominant position via the Apple iOS platform, Apple and the publishers agreed that prices for ebooks that were offered through the iBookstore would be calculated by a formula tied to physical books,» the lawsuit said.

Marc Ona was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for leading a campaign to publicly expose the unlawful agreements behind a huge mining project threatening the sensitive ecosystems of Gabon's... Read More

Ona was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for his efforts to publicly expose the unlawful agreements behind a huge mining project threatening the sensitive ecosystems of Gabon's equatorial rainforests.

Marc Ona was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for leading a campaign to publicly expose the unlawful agreements behind a huge mining project threatening the sensitive ecosystems of Gabon's equatorial rainforests.

Put another way: could the respondent in this case prove the trust without recourse to the unlawful agreement.

The court could have concluded that the unlawful agreement was the only rational explanation for the conduct and, therefore, tainted it, but it chose not to link these two processes.

Real estate practitioners and firms must take care not only to avoid conduct that does violate the law, but also conduct that supports an inference of an unlawful agreement with other real estate professionals in restraint of trade.

In one infamous case a court found that an unlawful agreement had been reached when one competitor announced to others his intention to raise his commission rates and the other competitors adopted the same course of action within a short period of time.