Feds’ rent-fixing suit proceeds

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina federal court denied a rental property management software company’s motion to dismiss antitrust claims filed by the federal government and several states. The parties entered into a consent decree restricting the firm’s ability to use renter data to set prices across wide ares of the country, but the judge found the government’s claims were not moot, and that the use of pooled renter data by the company and others like it plausibly support an antitrust claim.Read the ruling here.Read our coverage of the complaint here.Subscribe to our free newslettersOur weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.Additional Reads