A Washington federal judge gave a win Wednesday to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., dismissing a set of lawsuits that accused the two credit card companies of violating federal antitrust laws in how they set ATM fees.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that the plaintiffs ATM operators and consumers who used ATMs failed to make sufficient claims that they were harmed by how Visa and MasterCard managed ATM fees, and also didn’t present enough facts to support a claim that the companies were part of an anti-competitive conspiracy with banks.
