by Jacqueline Emigh February 11, 2009
Hot on the heels of similar lawsuits against Netflix and Wal-Mart in other states, a new court action in West Virginia charges that the two companies colluded over dinner to drive DVD prices "artificially higher." A newly filed suit by a West Virginia law firm alleges that Netflix and Wal-Mart have broken antitrust laws and caused "damage" to past and current Netflix customers in the US by divvying up various segments of the online and retail DVD market between themselves. Similar legal actions are reportedly also under way against Netflix and Wal-Mart in at least eight other states, including California, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Arkansas. The suit in West Virginia contends that, during a dinner meeting in 2005, Netflix agreed to stay out of DVD sales if Wal-Mart in turn would refrain from online DVD rentals.
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