Overview
- A proposed class-action complaint was filed June 22, 2026 in federal court in Sacramento naming Kalibrate, its parent Knowledge Support Systems and more than 1,700 California stations operated by national and regional chains.
- The suit alleges Kalibrate’s Fuel Pricing product requires stations to share cost and volume data and then makes price recommendations that let retailers avoid competing on price.
- Central to the complaint is a feature called “restoration,” which plaintiffs say lets most stations in a market contemporaneously implement large price hikes and thus coordinate higher pump prices.
- Plaintiffs invoke California’s main antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, and AB 325, the 2025 law that bans common pricing algorithms, and seek unspecified damages on behalf of drivers who paid inflated prices.
- The filing quantifies harm by saying prices rose as much as about 30 cents per gallon in some areas and noting each penny in price costs Californians roughly $134 million per year, while defendants have not publicly answered the allegations and the case is pending.