Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced a lawsuit against RealPage, Inc. (RealPage) and 14 of the largest residential landlords in the District for colluding to illegally raise rents for tens of thousands of DC residents by collectively delegating price-setting authority to RealPage, which used a centralized pricing algorithm to inflate prices, costing renters millions of dollars.

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced that Indivior, Inc – which makes the opioid addiction treatment medication Suboxone – will pay the District approximately $2.3 million as part of a 42-state settlement that resolves allegations that the company orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme to block generic competition for Suboxone. The alleged scheme enabled Indivior to extract monopoly profits for Suboxone at the expense of District residents suffering from opioid addiction, who either paid more for Suboxone than they would have without Indivior’s conduct or did not receive the treatment at all.

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin’s ruling in U.S. et al. v. American Airlines Group Inc. et al.

Attorney General Karl A. Racine today released a new, comprehensive report highlighting the breadth of work of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) over the past eight years.  

Lawsuit and Temporary Restraining Order Follow Albertsons’ & Kroger’s’ Refusal to Stop the Private Equity Cash-Grab that Would Hamstring Albertsons’ Ability to Compete & Hurt Jobs of Safeway Employees

OAG is starting a formal investigation into the Albertsons-Kroger proposed merger and its impact on workers and consumers.

Attorney General Karl A. Racine today will testify at a hearing in the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. Below is his opening statement for the hearing, as prepared for delivery. 

Today, Attorney General Karl Racine and 36 other attorneys general filed a new antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company used its dominance to unfairly restrict competition with the Google Play Store for Android mobile devices and forced app developers to use its payment processor, Google Billing, as a middleman for in-app purchases.

May was quite the month.