Madison bar owners fixed prices, lawyer alleges WED., OCT 3, 2007
Drinkers in Madison were wrongly cut off from two-for-one beer deals and cheap shots of liquor by bar owners who fixed their prices, a lawyer told the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Lawyer Kay Hunt asked the justices to reinstate a lawsuit claiming a 2002 agreement by bars to ban drink specials on weekend nights was an illegal price-fixing conspiracy. Her Minneapolis law firm represents drinkers who claim they were overcharged as a result of the ban.
"Here you have a group of competitors that bound together to eliminate drink specials," she said. Their deal, she added, "constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade."
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