Bar/Bri Class Member Notices Mailed
Those who sat for their bar exam between 1997 and 2006, and prepared by taking a Bar/Bri course, might want to watch their mail boxes. The New York Inquirer reports that notices for members of the plaintiffs class were mailed out recently, permitting potential plaintiffs to opt out of the class. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real granted class certification in the law suit. Plaintiffs allege an illegal market-division agreement with Bar/Bri’s largest potential competitor, Kaplan. Kaplan and Bar/Bri allegedly agreed that Kaplan would stay out of the bar review course market, on the condition that hundreds of thousands of dollars per year be paid to Kaplan, and that BAR/BRI also stay out of Kaplan’s LSAT prep course market. Shuba Gosh over at AntitrustProf Blog has links to the complaint, class certification, and order appointing a special master.
Bar/Bri is no stranger to cartel litigation, of course, having been found to have illegally divided the market for bar-review courses in the 1980s, by agreeing with a Georgia provider of bar review courses to stay out of Georgia. Palmer v. BRG of Georgia, 498 U.S. 46 (1990).
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July 21st, 2006 at 8:44 am
I just received mine in the mail on Wednesday, though the end result of these sort of lawsuits is usually a check for about $4 to the members of the class. Here’s a link to the Bar/Bri class litigation webpage which has pdf files of the complaint, the defendants’ answers to the complain, the motion for class certification, and the notice to class members.
http://www.barbri-classaction.com/barbri/default.htm
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