MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. -- The 1st Circuit upheld late last week a lower court ruling finding that gasoline prices on Martha's Vineyard have not been illegally inflated, according to a report by "The Docket," the news blog of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
Plaintiffs had complained that four of the Vineyard's nine gas stations entered into a price-fixing conspiracy and engaged in price gouging in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
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U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel disagreed, as did 1st Circuit Chef Judge Sandra L. Lynch on appeal.
Both concluded that the defendant gasoline retailers did nothing that violated either the Sherman Antitrust Act or a price-gouging regulation promulgated under the Massachusetts consumer protection statute, said the report.
Click hereto view the full text of the decision, White, et al. v. R.M. Packer Co. Inc., et al.
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