'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，算法的使用可能会产生反竞争效应。
- 原告在地方法院驳回案件后提起上诉。
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陈述书，指控凯撒娱乐公司和其他拉斯维加斯酒店公司利用算法操纵价格。
"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."
“价格算法可以比以前的通信技术辅助的人类更快地处理更多信息，”司法部在周四提交给第九巡回上诉法院的请愿书中说。“因此，这些算法可以增加竞争对手之间串通的手段和机会。”
The Vegas case is the first of its kind to reach a federal appeals court and is expected to impact similar suits going forward.
这起拉斯维加斯案件是首例达到联邦上诉法院的案件，预计将对未来类似诉讼产生影响。
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.
一群在不同拉斯维加斯酒店下榻的消费原告在陪审法官米兰达·杜（Miranda Du）驳回案件后向第九巡回上诉法院提起上诉，她表示，他们未能合理主张酒店之间存在暗示协议，以利用由Rainmaker Group（Cendyn Group LLC子公司）开发的算法提高房价。
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.
杜在判决中表示，她做出这一决定是因为酒店和娱乐场在不同时间注册了定价软件服务，而且这些酒店不受软件建议的约束。最近，一起几乎相同的指控大西洋城酒店娱乐场的诉讼因类似理由被驳回。
The DOJ rejected Du's notion that the freedom to reject the software's pricing recommendations meant no collusion took place.
司法部驳回了杜的看法，即拒绝软件的定价建议意味着没有串通发生。
