Our litigation practice includes antitrust defense of predatory pricing/price fixing and monopolistic practice allegations. The Mikkelborg Firm has successfully defended, through both trial and appeal, clients in the fishing and shipping industries.

As an example of the firm's success in the antitrust arena, Douglas M. Fryer was lead counsel in the 2003 Bristol Bay price fixing case, Alakayak v. All Alaskan Seafoods, Inc., et al. The jury had deliberated less than five hours after hearing nearly four months of testimony. The plaintiffs in the class action suit were 4500 salmon fishermen who sold fish to processors during the 1989 to 1995 seasons.  Mr. Fryer has written about the case in his article, The Bristol Bay Price Fixing Case.

Mr. Fryer was also lead counsel for Wards Cove Packing Company in a prior price fixing case, which was tried in 1981 in Federal Court in Seattle, Washington.  He was lead counsel for Wards Cove, as well, in the nationally famous Supreme Court case of Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., 490 U.S. 462 (1989). This earlier case involved claims of racial discrimination in the canneries, and lasted for 28 years, from 1974 to 2002, until the claims were finally dismissed.