Class Action Case: In re Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Antitrust Litigation, MDL No, 1917
Court Approved Website: www.crtclaims.com
Current Settlement Amount: $576.75 million
Claim Submission Deadline: December 7, 2015
Case Summary: Defendants allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to raise and fix the prices of CRT products for a period several years, and as a consequence purchasers of CRT products were overcharged. Defendants deny these claims. In total, there are nine settlements totaling $576,750,000. Of these nine settlements, the Court must still decide whether to approve two of the settlements. The settling defendants are Chungwa, LG, Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, SDI, Thomson and TDA Defendants.
Settlement Class Members: All persons or entities who, from March 1, 1995 to November 25, 2007, purchased CRT products, for their own use and not for resale, from an entity other than Defendants in AZ, CA, FL, HI, IA, KS, ME, MI, MN, MS, NE, NM, NY, NC, ND, SD, TN, VT, WV, WI, and the District of Columbia. The class periods for Hawaii, Nebraska and Nevada begin later than the class periods for the other states.
CRT Products: CRT products are items such as color display tubes, color picture tubes and monochrome display tubes, which were commonly, used in televisions and computer monitors.
Indirect Purchaser: An “Indirect” purchaser of a CRT Product is someone who did not buy the CRT Product directly from any Defendant.
Defendants: Thomson SA (now known as Technicolor SA); Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. (now known as Technicolor USA, Inc.); Technologies Displays Americas LLC (formerly known as Thomson Displays Americas LLC); Videocon Industries, Ltd.; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. (formerly known as Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc.); Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America, Inc. (formerly known as Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc.); LG Electronics, Inc., LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., LG Electronics Taiwan Taipei Co., Ltd., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Electronics North America Corporation, Philips Electronics Industries (Taiwan), Ltd., Philips da Amazonia Industria Electronica Ltda., LP Displays International, Ltd. f/k/a LG.Philips Displays, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., Samsung SDI America, Inc., Samsung SDI Mexico S.A. de C.V., Samsung SDI Brasil Ltda., Shenzhen Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., Tianjin Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., Samsung SDI Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Toshiba Corporation, Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C., Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., Panasonic Corporation f/k/a Matsushita Electric Industrial, Ltd., Panasonic Corporation of North America, MT Picture Display Co., Ltd., Beijing-Matsushita Color CRT Company, Ltd. (BMCC), Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd. (n/k/a Japan Display Inc.), Hitachi Electronic Devices (USA), Inc., Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Asia, Ltd., Tatung Company of America, Inc., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd., Chunghwa Picture Tubes (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., IRICO Group Corporation, IRICO Display Devices Co., Ltd., IRICO Group Electronics Co., Ltd., Thai CRT Company, Ltd., Daewoo Electronics Corporation f/k/a Daewoo Electronics Company, Ltd., Daewoo International Corporation, Irico Group Corporation, Irico Group Electronics Co., Ltd., and Irico Display Devices Co., Ltd.
