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Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount |
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Rhone-Poulenc SA | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 | ||
U.S. Tobacco Co. | Altria | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,050,000,000 |
Ueno Fine Chemicals, Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,500,000 | ||
CSK Auto | O'Reilly Automotive | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $8,800,000 |
Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis | AT&T | telecommunications | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,000,000 |
BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles | Coca-Cola Co. | beverages | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $20,200,000 |
Bank of America | Bank of America | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $22,000,000 |
Eckerd | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 |
Pizza Hut | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
Taco Bell | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $13,000,000 |
Farmers Insurance Exchange | Farmers Insurance Exchange | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $90,009,208 |
Rite Aid | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $25,000,000 |
Perdue Farms | Perdue | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,400,000 |
U-Haul | AMERCO | miscellaneous services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $7,500,000 |
Frito-Lay | PepsiCo | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,900,000 |
Microsoft | Microsoft | information technology | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $97,000,000 |
Caterpillar | Caterpillar Inc. | heavy equipment | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,303 |
Exxon Corporation | Exxon Mobil | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $12,000,000 |
Chevron Corp. | Chevron | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
Akzo Nobel | Carlyle Group | private equity (including portfolio companies) | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,500,000 |
Beaulieu of America | Engineered Floors | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,700,000 |
Christie's Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,000,000 | ||
Mohawk Industries, Inc. | Mohawk Industries | housewares and home furnishings | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $13,500,000 |
Shaw Industries Inc. | Berkshire Hathaway | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $27,500,000 |
Sotheby's Inc. | Sotheby's | miscellaneous services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,000,000 |
UCB Chemicals Corporation | UCB | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,000,000 |
Laboratory Corporation of America | Laboratory Corp. of America | healthcare services | consumer protection violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,000,000 |
Rent-A-Center | Rent-A-Center | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $3,000,000 |
American General Life Insurance | American International Group | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $214,000,000 |
AFG Industries Inc. | AGC Inc. | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $19,800,000 |
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Sanofi | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
BASF AG | BASF | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $5,000,000 |
BASF AG | BASF | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd. | Daicel | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $16,000,000 |
Daiichi Pharmaceutical | Daiichi Sankyo | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
Eastman Chemical Company | Eastman Chemical | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
Eisai Company | Eisai | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
Guardian Industries Corp. | Koch Industries | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $16,900,000 |
Hoechst AG | Sanofi | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $37,000,000 |
Hoffmann-La Roche | Roche | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $130,000,000 |
Nippon Gohsei Industries, Ltd. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,200,000 | ||
Pilkington North America Inc. | Nippon Sheet Glass | miscellaneous manufacturing | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
Takeda Chemical | Takeda Pharmaceutical | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
Quest Diagnostics Inc. | Quest Diagnostics | healthcare services | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
Western Union Co. | Western Union | financial services | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $375,000,000 |
Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-state | $82,000,000 |