For the information of scholarly authors and reviewers:

On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier B.V., John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer NV, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), on behalf of a putative class or scientists and scholars who allege that these six world’s-largest for-profit publishers of peer-reviewed scholarly journals conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research…

An invitation is extended to learn more and/or join the plaintiffs:

If you are a member of the academic community and want more information about the lawsuit, or seek to join the plaintiffs, please use the form on this page to send us a confidential message today. There is no charge or obligation for our review of your information, which will help us hold the publisher defendants accountable for their pervasive illegal actions.

More info: 

https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/