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Bonny E. Sweeney is a partner in the San Diego office of Coughlin Stoia, where she specializes in antitrust and unfair competition class action litigation. She is immediate past Chair of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California and has served on the Executive Committee of the Section since 2002. In 2007, Ms. Sweeney was honored by Competition Law 360 as an "Outstanding Woman" in antitrust.
Ms. Sweeney is co-lead counsel in several multi-district antitrust class actions pending in federal courts around the country, including In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merch. Disc. Antitrust Litig. (E.D.N.Y.), In re Carbon Black Antitrust Litig. (D. Mass.), and In re Currency Conversion Fee Antitrust Litig. (S.D.N.Y.), and serves on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in In re Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Cal.). In Currency Conversion, Bonny helped recover $336 million for class members through a proposed settlement that is awaiting approval from the federal court. In DRAM, the federal court recently approved settlements totaling more than $300 million.
Ms. Sweeney was one of the trial lawyers in Law v. NCAA/Hall v. NCAA/Schreiber v. NCAA (D. Kan.), in which the jury awarded $67 million to three classes of college coaches. She has participated in the successful prosecution and settlement of numerous other antitrust and unfair competition cases, including In re LifeScan, Inc. Consumer Litig. (N.D. Cal.), which settled for $45 million; the Bank Privacy Cases (S.F. Sup. Ct.), which resulted in better bank privacy policies, funding to non-profit groups advocating for privacy rights, and benefits to credit cardholders, In re NASDAQ Market-Makers Antitrust Litig. (S.D.N.Y.), which settled for $1.027 billion, and In re Airline Ticket Commc'n Antitrust Litig. (D. Minn.), which settled for more than $85 million.
In 2003, Ms. Sweeney was honored with the Wiley M. Manuel Pro Bono Services Award and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Distinguished Service Award for her work on behalf of welfare applicants in Sanchez v. County of San Diego. In addition to her service for the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, Ms. Sweeney contributes to legal education by speaking on antitrust topics, California's unfair competition law, and complex litigation matters. She also has published articles and testified before the California Judiciary Committee on these topics.
Ms. Sweeney graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1988, where she served as editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She earned a Master of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1985, a Chinese Language Certificate from the Beijing Language Institute in 1982, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Whittier College in 1981.
A litigator since 1988, Ms. Sweeney is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts, and is a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the California Bar Association.
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