Man Files Putative Class Alleging Some Shale Oil Producers Fixed Gas Prices

(August 19, 2024, 1:42 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A man filed a putative class action on Aug. 16 against multiple hydraulic fracturing companies in California federal court contending that they engaged in a conspiracy “to coordinate, and ultimately constrain, domestic shale oil production, which has had the effect of fixing, raising, and maintaining the price of retail gasoline” in violation of the Sherman Act....