Starwood, Expedia Win Dismissal of Room Price-Fixing Suit | bloomberg.com

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (HOT) and Expedia Inc. (EXPE) among other hotel and Internet travel agencies won dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit after a judge found consumers hadn’t showed the companies conspired to fix room prices. “The well-pled facts do not plausibly suggest that defendants entered into an industrywide conspiracy,” U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle in Dallas said yesterday in a ruling throwing out the case.