Public Justice, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, has distributed an insightful video featuring firm partner Christopher Young speaking about the firm’s Capacitors Price-Fixing Antitrust Litigation. Watch here to learn more about this successfully concluded case featuring two trials, over 20 defendants, and the challenge of navigating forward during the onslaught of the Covid pandemic.
The video is crafted from Public Justice’s June 2024 visit to the firm to interview Chris about the case’s background and success, and was presented at its 42nd annual Gala & Awards presentation held July 22 in Nashville, TN. At the event, the firm was honored as a finalist in Public Justice’s 2024 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for its work on Capacitors, in which, as sole lead counsel, it achieved five rounds of settlements totaling $604.55 million, significantly exceeding $427 million calculated single damages: an antitrust law rarity.
According to Public Justice, Capacitors “highlights the importance of private enforcement of the antitrust laws to bring about economic justice. It demonstrates that antitrust plaintiffs, represented by expert antitrust trial lawyers, can and will use the jury system to protect consumers, workers, and small businesses from those who violate antitrust laws in the United States.”
Each year, Public Justice presents its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award to the trial attorney or legal team who made the greatest contribution to the public interest within the past year by trying or settling a socially significant case.
Founded in January 1982, Public Justice takes on purveyors of corporate corruption, sexual abusers and harassers, and polluters who ravage the environment. Its battles are inspired by a pledge to further equity and equality, end systemic oppression, and protect and expand access to justice for all. Armed with insightful, nuanced knowledge of federal and state laws and savvy communications and organizing strategies, Public Justice fights to protect the environment, solidify and enhance civil rights, and ensure every individual can exercise their right to have their day in court.