James A. Brown and K. Todd Wallace  of Liskow & Lewis have secured dismissal of antitrust price fixing claims filed by the Louisiana Attorney General against McKinsey & Company, Inc., one of the world's largest international consulting firms, and several co-defendant insurance companies. In a December 17, 2008 ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana exonerated McKinsey and its co-defendants, ruling that the Attorney General's claims that they had engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices on property damage payouts to insureds following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were not plausible and therefore should be dismissed as a matter of law. Mr. Brown and Mr. Wallace, along with other attorneys, had previously developed a theory for removal of the case from state court to federal court on the grounds that the case was a "disguised class and/or mass action" subject to removal under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. See See State of Louisiana, ex. rel., James D. Caldwell v. Allstate Insurance Co., et. al., 536 F.3d 418 (5th Cir. July 18, 2008).