NAAG State Antitrust Litigation Database

NAAG State Antitrust Litigation Database

This database allows full-text searching and sorting and searching by lead state, year, industry, defendant, and cause of action. The database is part of the states’ on-going efforts to convey what states do and responds to requests from antitrust academics and practitioners for a single authoritative and comprehensive source of state antitrust enforcement information. We hope the database facilitates empirical analyses of the trends in and effects of state antitrust enforcement.

The database project was accomplished under the leadership of Trish Conners, Director of the Antitrust Division for the Florida Attorney General’s Office and immediate past chair of the Multistate Antitrust Task Force.

The database focuses on completed criminal and civil cases from 1990 to the present. A few states were able to include earlier cases as well. The database includes the case citation, where available, and, if filed in court, the docket number and name of the court. The entry for each case includes a field that reflects whether there was a federal case related to the state case. Iincluded in this category of cases are every case in which the state and federal enforcement agencies both took action, whether that action was joint, parallel or independent. Specific information as to the federal agency involvement, if any, is found in the long description of the case.

This database is a work in progress. Additional cases, from cases since 1990 and from earlier periods, will continue to be added. We welcome comments, suggestions, or corrections on both the content and the format. All comments should be sent to NAAG’s Antitrust Counsel, Emily Myers.