Vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws is essential to a free and fair marketplace. The Supreme Court has made clear that private antitrust lawsuits are an important part of antitrust enforcement, in Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal., 405 U.S. 251, 262 (1972):

Every violation of the antitrust laws is a blow to the free-enterprise system envisaged by Congress. This system depends on strong competition for its health and vigor, and strong competition depends, in turn, on compliance with antitrust legislation. In enacting these laws, Congress had many means at its disposal to penalize violators. It could have, for example, required violators to compensate federal, state, and local governments for the estimated damage to their respective economies caused by the violations. But, this remedy was not selected. Instead, Congress chose to permit all persons to sue to recover three times their actual damages every time they were injured in their business or property by an antitrust violation. By offering potential litigants the prospect of a recovery in three times the amount of their damages, Congress encouraged these persons to serve as "private attorneys general."

            It is in the spirit of a “private attorney general” that Mehri & Skalet prosecutes antitrust class action litigation: to combat and deter anticompetitive practices, and to give wronged consumers and businesses a remedy for illegal behavior in the marketplace.