IPO Suits Alleging Price-Fixing Dismissed

The Associated Press reports that District Judge Pauley of the S.D.N.Y. has dismissed two class actions alleging price-fixing in connection with high-tech initial public offerings. The anti-trust cases, brought in 2001 against ten investment banks, addressed the same claims of stock price manipulation and commission kickbacks as in the related IPOallocation cases. The article states “Pauley ruled Monday that the charges made by investors in the suits are immune from antitrust law and fall to federal securities regulators to decide.”