Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., the world’s biggest payment networks, won dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by a group representing operators of automated teller machines, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson also threw out two related suits yesterday, ruling that all the plaintiffs failed to show the companies conspired to restrict independent ATM operators from charging varying prices for customers using alternative networks such as STAR, Shazam Inc. or TransFund. The allegations in the lead case were made by the National ATM Council Inc., a trade group based in Jacksonville, Fla., and 13 operators of ATMs in nine states.
