Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Tom Demitrack is the coordinator of the antitrust practice in Jones Day's Cleveland Office. He has litigated numerous antitrust cases, including price-fixing, vertical restraints, monopolization, and Robinson-Patman cases, as well as intellectual property cases raising antitrust issues. Tom has substantial experience, in particular, in distribution cases raising price discrimination and similar issues and in class action practice. In recent years, he has represented clients such as Ascension Health, Bayer, Eastman, Experian, Macy's, Madison Square Garden, and R.J. Reynolds.

Tom is listed as a leading lawyer in antitrust in Northeast Ohio's Inside Business magazine and in Ohio Super Lawyers. He has spoken on antitrust issues at Ohio State Bar Association and Federal Bar Association programs and on conflicts of interest issues at continuing legal education programs.

Tom is Jones Day's Professional Responsibilities Partner and is a member of the Firm's Professional Services Committee.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Antitrust Litigation
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Distribution & Robinson-Patman
• Metals & Mining

Representative Cases

• Budget Pest Prevention v. Bayer Corp. and Bayer CropScience, L.P.
• Eastman Kodak Co. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., No. CV-2-90-221 (E.D. Tenn., filed Sept. 11, 1990)
• Fleischman v. Albany Medical Center, No. 06-CV-0765 (TJM/DRH) (N.D. N.Y.) and Cason-Merenda v. Detroit Medical Center, No. 06-CV-15601 (E.D. Mich.)
• FTC v. Tenet Healthcare Corp., 186 F.3d 1045 (8th Cir. 1999)
• Genesee Vending, Inc. v. Lorillard Tobacco Co., 2004-02 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 74,603 (E.D. Mich. 2004)
• GRiD Sys. Corp. v. Texas Instruments, No. C-90-2571-DLJ (N.D. Cal., filed Sept. 6, 1990)
• Hammons v. Alcan Aluminum Corp., No. BC145612 (Los Angeles Sup. Ct., filed March 5, 1996)
• In re Brand-Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 997 (N.D. Ill. consolidated 1994)
• In re Domestic Air Transp. Antitrust Litig., No. 1:90-CV-2485-MHS & MDL Docket No. 861 (N.D. Ga., filed Aug. 7, 1991)
• In re Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1542 (D. Conn.)
• In re Medical X-Ray Film Antitrust Litig., No. CV-93-5904 (E.D.N.Y., filed Dec. 23, 1993)
• In re Polychloroprene Rubber (CR) Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1642, 360 F. Supp. 2d 1348 (D. Conn.)
• In re Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) Antitrust & Patent Litigation and Lossada v. Union Oil Company of Calif., and consolidated / coordinated actions
• In re Tableware Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. 2007)
• In re Urethane Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1616, 232 F.R.D. 681, 409 F. Supp. 2d 1275 (D. Kan.)
• Jung v. Ass’n of Am. Med. Colls., 226 F.R.D. 7 (D.D.C. 2005), aff’d, 2006 WL 1582667 (D.C. Cir. June 1, 2006)
• Jung v. Ass’n of Am. Med. Colls., 226 F.R.D. 7 (D.D.C. 2005), aff’d, 2006 WL 1582667 (D.C. Cir. June 1, 2006)
• Leslie H. Dial Enters., Inc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 3:02-4046-22 (D.S.C., filed Dec. 4, 2002)
• Nat’l Info. Servs. TRW, Inc., No. 90-863-PA, 1992 WL 715632 (D. Or. Sep. 9, 1992), aff’d, 52 F.3d 334 (9th Cir. 1995) (table)
• National Recycling, Inc., v. Waste Management, Inc., et al., No. 03-12174-NMG (D. Mass.)
• Nilavar v. Mercy Health System-Western Ohio, No. C3-99-612, 2005 WL 1630881 (S.D. Ohio)
• PepsiCo, Inc. v. Coca-Cola Co., No. 98 Civ. 3282 (LAP), 1998 WL 547088 (S.D.N.Y., Aug. 27, 1998)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Premium Tobacco Stores, No. 99 C 1174, 2005 WL 293512 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 15, 2004), aff'd, 462 F.3d 690 (7th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, No. 06-848, 2007 U.S. LEXIS 2142 (Feb. 20, 2007)
• Robinson v. Kirby, No. 8:00CV563 (D. Neb.)
• Sanders v. Philip Morris USA, No. BC313407 (Cal. Sup. Ct., Los Angeles Cty., filed April 7, 2004)
• Smith Wholesale Co. v. H.T. Hackney Corp. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. C10050, Carter County Circuit Court
• Smith Wholesale Co. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 65-6053, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 4254 (6th Cir. Feb. 27, 2007)
• Standfacts Credit Servs., Inc. v. Experian Information Solutions, 405 F. Supp. 2d 1141 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 7, 2005)
• TRW Fin. Sys. v. Unisys Corp., No. 90-CV-71252-DT (E.D. Mich., filed May 4, 1990)
• Zeller Corp. v. Federal-Mogul Corp., No. 3:95 CV 7501, 1996 WL 903951 (N.D. Ohio July 25, 1996), aff’d, 173 F.3d 858 (6th Cir. 1999)
• Acquisition of Zilog , (2009)
• Acquisitions and Takeover Litigation
• Netscape Acquisition and Strategic Alliance with Sun Microsystems
• Sorbates Cartel Investigation
• Sorbates Price-Fixing Litigation

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Patents, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Ohio State University

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Price Squeeze Claim in Pacific Bell v. linkLine, 2009
• The Sixth and Seventh Circuits Provide Practical Robinson-Patman Guidance to Businesses, 2007
• Antitrust and the 2005 Supreme Court Term, 2005
• Antitrust Update: Acquisitions Involving Foreign Persons Under the New HSR Rules, 2002
• Recent Developments in HSR Reform, 2001
• Antitrust Enforcers "Click On" B2Bs, 2000
• Robinson-Patman: Alive and Still Kicking?, 1990

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