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“It is reprehensible to overcharge and take advantage of wildfire victims who were in desperate need of housing as they fled their homes from raging fires last year,” Los Angeles County Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimated that the lack of competition in the repair market allowed dealers to overcharge by $190 million to $387 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

The lack of transparency enables PBMs to overcharge patients and health plans.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

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

A few years since, some Westminster scholars received great insult from a hackney-coachman, who treated them with the greatest scurrility, because they would not comply with an overcharge in his fare.

From Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed by Joseph Taylor

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

State officials in Florida sued the company last year, claiming it overbilled the state by nearly $5.8 million for pandemic-response work and refused repayment after the overcharges were identified.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

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

Rents would not affect him; he would be free from landladies' overcharges.

From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby

"We've tried very hard to try and produce it, we've overcharged it as much as we can... We were unsuccessful in generating chromium-6."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

For some that's because they do not want their supplier to estimate their usage in case they are overcharged.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

They were certain the bill overcharged them by twenty-two dollars.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

I believe this is a legitimate case of timeshare overcharging.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

“You had a lot of dealerships in the Covid era that were overcharging, to say the least,” said Eric Frehsée, president of the Tamaroff Group in the Detroit area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

The batteries become a risk when they enter thermal runaway, a state that can be triggered by overcharging, manufacturing errors or physical damage that can lead to fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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