About a year and a half ago, many of the campus-area bars in Madison, under pressure from the city, got together and stopped advertising drink specials on Friday and Saturday nights. Before this, it was pretty easy to find someplace selling your favorite drink at two for a dollar on any given weekend.
Now, some UW students are suing:
The suit, filed by a Minneapolis law firm on behalf of three University of Wisconsin-Madison students, says taverns that agreed to eliminate weekend drink specials - a step strongly urged by Chancellor John Wiley - committed felony violations of both state and federal antitrust law, regardless of their intent. It also accuses UW-Madison of participating.
The suit maintains that the victims of price fixing - basically anyone who patronized the downtown taverns on Friday or Saturday nights and paid full price - are entitled to triple damages under antitrust law.
As it happens, I have patronized certain downtown taverns on Friday or Saturday nights, so go, lawsuit, go!
Posted by Aaron S. Veenstra ::: 2004:03:24:16:57