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A survey by the Computer Petroleum Corp showed that while the wholesale price of diesel fuel fell by 12% between Oct 19 and Nov 2, 1993, the average price at truck stops have decreased by only 2%. These findings have prompted some industry analysts to conclude that fuel suppliers are keeping prices artificially high. As a result, the trucking industry is calling for federal investigations of price fixing by the oil industry. For their part, oil industry officials claimed that the high prices are due to distribution problems.

The Kazakhstani government has accused Eni SPA's subsidiary Agip KCO of fraud. The company has allegedly accumulated $110 in overcharges involving plant construction. Comments from officials are also given.

WASHINGTON --The U.S. Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal by several drug makers that argue they cannot be sued by a California county for allegedly overcharging for prescription [...]

Petco Animal Supplies Inc. paid $1.75 million in penalties and legal costs to settle allegations of overcharging customers and mistreating pets that it sells, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said June [...]

GROCER CHARGED: Supermarket giant Ralphs and parent Kroger Co. have been accused of overcharging customers, false advertising and false labeling. The charges follow an undercover operation by Los Angeles County [...]

Consumers Union of United States filed a price-gouging suit against First Nationwide Bank in an attempt to stop misleading advertisements of adjustable rate mortgages. First Nationwide promises low teaser rates for the first six months, but the higher rate goes into effect an average of two weeks early, costing the consumer $100 on a $200,000 mortgage. First Nationwide claims they provide detailed disclosure and that any confusion was unintentional., SAN FRANCISCO -- Accusing First Nationwide Bank of price-gouging and deception, a consumer group has sued the San Francisco-based thrift, asking for a court order to halt allegedly misleading disclosures [...]

'You create a public good this substantial, guess what: public trust responsibilities come with it,' said University of California law professor Pamela Samuelson about the Google Book Search Settlement, on [...]

LAST week's record $345 million fine against BNSF Railway for overcharging two utility companies for coal shipments to their generating plant comes just as a coalition of captive shippers in [...]

EchoStar has filed a petition with the FCC claiming that the Big Ten Network is price gouging. The issue for EchoStar is that its satellite competitor DirecTV is part of [...]

Sun Microsystems Inc. said it plans to file a new lawsuit after a federal judge threw out its complaint that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and other dynamic RAM manufacturers illegally inflated […]

In August, a New York state Supreme Court justice upheld Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office in one of the lawsuits he filed alleging gasoline price gouging in the wake of [...]

United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission's charges against BP PLC for price rigging and the lawsuit filed against the company's chief executive officer John Browne are discussed.

The Justice Department has recovered more than $13 million from two companies and one state as a part of a settlement of technology fraud cases against the federal government under […]