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C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

The HUD figure, which is based on Census data for typical apartment rents in an area, is used to ensure landlords cannot overcharge low-income residents with housing choice vouchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

In practice, many insurers overcharge the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in inflated estimates, often by adding diagnosis codes that make individuals appear sicker on paper than they are in reality.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2024

Due to this capture, Google is able to overcharge text-ad clients and shroud its actual terms in secrecy in a way that it hasn’t with more visually oriented ads.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024

With small cells using glass jars this can most easily be done directly after an overcharge by carefully drawing off the electrolyte without disturbing the sediment and then removing it from the jar.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen

And earlier this year, a jury found that Live Nation was an illegal monopoly, following years of criticism that the company stifles competition and overcharges fans, but analysts say a breakup is unlikely.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

“The companies pulled their punches, and one company was left being the sole bidder on the contract and that involved a lot of overcharges to the good people of Texas,” Slater said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Tap again when leaving a station to avoid overcharges.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Bradshaw is suing Clark and more than a dozen other attorneys over their handling of a separate lawsuit stemming from DWP billing overcharges, alleging his due processes were violated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

You will get a receipt for this when I get back to the office," he said; "it is about what you owe our company for overcharges and crooked material.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

“This agreement protects patients from unnecessary treatment or getting overcharged, ensures access to medical care and legal representation, and strengthens safety measures.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The base fee also protects the customer, in theory, from being overcharged.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Diamond Ward, his public defender in the state case, said prosecutors overcharged Moreno-Gama, calling the incident a “property crime, at best.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

In 2020 the FCC fined T-Mobile $200 million after investigators determined its recently acquired Sprint subsidiary had overcharged Lifeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

It turned out we were not being overcharged.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

I believe this is a legitimate case of timeshare overcharging.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

Live Nation, the entertainment giant which owns Ticketmaster, has been illegally operating as a monopoly and overcharging fans, a federal jury has found.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

She said the incident highlights what’s wrong with the system: overpolicing and overcharging for an outdated service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

In 2012, Walmart agreed to pay $2.1 million for allegedly overcharging customers in California and failing to comply with a 2008 judgment that required the company to resolve errors in pricing at checkout stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists—a practice known as overcharging.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander