Human Egg Donor Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Complaint Filed Over Alleged Price Fixing Of Human Egg Donor Services.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against American Society For Reproductive Medicine (“ASRM”), Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (“SART”) and Pacific Fertility Center (collectively “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (styled Lindsay Kamakahi v. American Society For Reproductive Medicine, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and Pacific Fertility Center, Civil Action Case No. 11-Cv-1781) challenging, as allegedly per se illegal under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, an alleged horizontal price fixing agreement among purchasers of human egg donor services (“Donor Services”) in connection with ASRM’s alleged promulgation of certain rules setting forth the maximum compensation its members should pay for donor services (“Maximum Price Rules”), SART’s alleged adoption of such Maximum Price Rules and SART-member fertility clinics’ alleged agreement to follow such rules, according to the Human Egg Donor Services antitrust class action lawsuit complaint.

The Human Egg Donor antitrust class action lawsuit complaint is reportedly brought on behalf of a putative class of persons (the Plaintiff Class), as follows, unless otherwise excluded:

All women who, at any time during the time period starting four years prior to the filing date of the complaint to the present (the “Class Period”), sold Donor Services for the purpose of supplying AR Eggs to be used for reproductive purposes, within the United States and its territories, to any Defendant Class member.

The Human Egg Donor antitrust class action lawsuit complaint reportedly refers to Donor Services as the time, inconvenience, labor and discomfort incurred by women who agree to supply their own human eggs for assisted ferility and reproductive procedures (“AR Eggs”).

The Human Egg Donor antitrust class action lawsuit complaint is also reportedly brought against a putative class of defendants (the Defendant Class), as follows, unless otherwise excluded:

All SART-member Fertility Clinics and all AR Egg Agencies that agreed to comply with SART/ASRM rules on donor egg compensation and who paid for Donor Services at any time during the time period starting four years prior to the filing date of the complaint to the present.

For more information on the Human Egg Donor Services antitrust class action lawsuit complaint, read the Human Egg Donor class action lawsuit complaint.