'DOJ Backs Suit Accusing Vegas Hotels Of Algorithmic Price-Fixing' - Bloomberg Law
'DOJ Backs Suit Accusing Vegas Hotels Of Algorithmic Price-Fixing' - Bloomberg Law
A group of consumer plaintiffs who stayed at various Vegas hotels filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit after Judge Miranda Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada dismissed the case in May, saying they failed to plausibly allege a tacit agreement between the hotels to inflate room prices using algorithms built by the Rainmaker Group, a Cendyn Group LLC subsidiary.- DOJ says use of algorithms can have anticompetitive effects
- Plaintiffs filed appeal after district court dismissed case
- 司法部表示，算法的使用可能會產生反競爭效應。
- 原告在地方法院駁回案件後提起上訴。
The Justice Department filed an amicus brief supporting customers who accused Ceasars Entertainment Inc. and other Las Vegas hotel companies of using algorithms to fix prices.
司法部提交支持原告的友情陳述書，指控凱撒娛樂公司和其他拉斯維加斯酒店公司利用算法操縱價格。
"Pricing algorithms can process more information more rapidly than humans aided by prior communications technologies," the DOJ said in a brief filed Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. "For this reason, such algorithms can increase the means and opportunities for collusion among competitors."
「價格算法可以比以前的通信技術輔助的人類更快地處理更多信息，」司法部在週四提交給第九巡迴上訴法院的請願書中說。「因此，這些算法可以增加競爭對手之間串通的手段和機會。」
The Vegas case is the first of its kind to reach a federal appeals court and is expected to impact similar suits going forward.
這起拉斯維加斯案件是首例達到聯邦上訴法院的案件，預計將對未來類似訴訟產生影響。
A group of consumer plaintiffs who stayed at various Vegas hotels filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit after Judge Miranda Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada dismissed the case in May, saying they failed to plausibly allege a tacit agreement between the hotels to inflate room prices using algorithms built by the Rainmaker Group, a Cendyn Group LLC subsidiary.
一群在不同拉斯維加斯酒店下榻的消費原告在陪審法官米蘭達·杜（Miranda Du）駁回案件後向第九巡迴上訴法院提起上訴，她表示，他們未能合理主張酒店之間存在暗示協議，以利用由Rainmaker Group（Cendyn Group LLC子公司）開發的算法提高房價。
In her ruling, Du said she reached her decision because the hotel-casinos signed up for the pricing software services at different times and the hotels weren't bound by the software's recommendations. A nearly identical suit accusing Atlantic City hotel-casinos was dismissed late last month on similar grounds.
杜在判決中表示，她做出這一決定是因爲酒店和娛樂場在不同時間註冊了定價軟件服務，而且這些酒店不受軟件建議的約束。最近，一起幾乎相同的指控大西洋城酒店娛樂場的訴訟因類似理由被駁回。
The DOJ rejected Du's notion that the freedom to reject the software's pricing recommendations meant no collusion took place.
司法部駁回了杜的看法，即拒絕軟件的定價建議意味着沒有串通發生。
