On Sept. 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser with co‑counsel Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust suit in New York for plaintiff Lucina Uddin and a proposed class of scientists and reviewers against six publishers—Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer; an Amended Complaint was filed Nov. 15, 2024. The complaint alleges three violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act: fixing the price of peer review at zero by coercing unpaid labor tied to publication; agreeing not to compete via single‑submission rules; and prohibiting sharing of manuscripts during often lengthy peer review while extracting intellectual property for nothing. Plaintiffs seek treble damages, injunctive relief, and an order dissolving the challenged agreements.