The Department of Justice says a federal district court earlier this year made a legal error when it dismissed a pricing algorithm antitrust case against Caesars and other hotel companies that operate on the Las Vegas strip.
In May, Judge Miranda Du of the U.S. District Court in Nevada said customers failed to show the hotels engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices by using the same price setting software, from a company called Cendyn Group, which was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
In dismissing the case, Du said price fixing among the hotels is implausible because they began using the software at different times, never exchanged non-public information with one another…
