Expedia, Starwood, Marriott Named in Price-Fixing Lawsuit
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Expedia Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc., are among a group of online travel sites and hotels accused of conspiring to fix prices for hotel rooms.
The sites and hotels are named in a complaint filed today in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of hotel-room purchasers nationwide. The plaintiffs, one a resident of Chicago, the other of Cedar Falls, Iowa, seek unspecified damages and a court order to end the alleged price fixing.