IN RE: PACKAGED SEAFOOD PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Case Number:
3:15-md-02670
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action, Multi-district Litigation
Judge:
Firms
- Sherrard Roe
- Ahern & Associates
- Parks & Solar
- Block & Leviton
- Cherian LLP
- Shindler Anderson
- Tostrud Law Group
- Sperling & Slater
- Andrews & Pontius
- Brown Neri
- Casey Gerry
- Quinn Emanuel
- Wilson Sonsini
- Alston & Bird
- Cuneo Gilbert
- King & Spalding
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Cera LLP
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Blood Hurst
- Wilson Turner Kosmo
- Donboli Law Group
- Angeli Law Group
- Bottini & Bottini
- Faegre Drinker
- Bailey & Glasser
- Lite DePalma
- Coffman Law Firm
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Kutak Rock
- Zoll & Kranz
- Neal & Harwell
- Safirstein Law
- Stueve Siegel
- Bartko Zankel
- Kaplan Fox
- Paul Weiss
- Allen Matkins
- Mullin Hoard
- Berg Hill
- Sprouse Shrader
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Heins Mills
- Miller Shah LLP
- Mason LLP (Washington, DC)
- Kenny Nachwalter
- Hartley LLP
- Pritzker Levine
- Motley Rice
- MoginRubin
- Kralowec Law
- Anderson Kill
- Mauriello Law Firm
- Blecher Collins
- Hausfeld LLP
- Lockridge Grindal
- Gross Klein
- Janssen Malloy
- Del Mar Law Group
- Fisher & Phillips
- Cohen & Gresser
- Porter Wright
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Troutman Pepper
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Miller Pitt
- Napoli Shkolnik
- Zelle LLP
- A&O Shearman
- Bartko LLP
- Marcus Neiman
- Marcus & Shapira
- Kirby McInerney
- Larson LLP
- BoiesBattin
- Boies Schiller
- Pearson Warshaw
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Nussbaum Law Group
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Gibson Dunn
- Perkins Coie
- Hogan Lovells
- Hagens Berman
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Levi & Korsinsky
- Gustafson Gluek
- Crosner Legal
- Barrett Law Group
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Haynsworth Sinkler
- Donahue Fitzgerald
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Kazerouni Law Group
- Ademi & O'Reilly
- Gainey McKenna
- Yarborough Law Firm
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Susman Godfrey
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Latham & Watkins
- Willkie Farr
Companies
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- Kmart Corp.
- Save A Lot Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Dollar Tree Inc.
- Central Grocers Inc.
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
- The Golub Corp.
- CVS Health Corp.
- 99 Cents Only Stores LLC
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- H‑E‑B LP
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- Costco
- Bumble Bee Foods LLC
- Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- URM Stores Inc.
- Del Monte Foods Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Krasdale Foods Inc.
- Lion Capital LLP
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Target Corp.
- K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.
- Supervalu Inc.
- Affiliated Foods Midwest Cooperative Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Sam's Club
- Walmart Inc.
- Brookshire Grocery
- Chicken of the Sea International
- Sysco Corp.
- Hy-Vee
- StarKist Co.
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- Dollar General Corp.
- Dongwon F&B Co. Ltd.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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October 28, 2024
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Lawyers for a class of consumers that sued three of the largest tuna producers accusing them of conspiring to fix tinned fish prices asked a California federal court to approve nearly $50 million in legal costs after a settlement this summer ended nearly nine years of multidistrict litigation.
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October 07, 2024
Attys Want $20M Fees For Netting $64M Tuna Price-Fixing Deal
Attorneys representing a class of purchasers who sued several canned tuna producers have asked a California federal judge for nearly $20 million in fees and costs associated with their recently inked $64 million settlement, saying the award is fair considering the effort the case took to prosecute and the complexity of the deal.
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August 14, 2024
Tuna Price-Fixing Deal Comes With A Catch: $26M In Fish
Two groups of buyers accusing major canned tuna producers of price-fixing have asked a California federal judge to give the first seal of approval to settlements totaling more than $168 million in cash, plus $26 million in packaged tuna products.
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June 25, 2024
Tuna Buyers Settle $1B Price-Fixing Claims Before July Trial
Tuna buyers seeking $1 billion in damages over allegations that StarKist, its parent company and a private investment firm that put money into Bumble Bee Foods conspired to hike the price of the tinned fish have reached settlements just ahead of trial, according to a California federal judge's order Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
Tuna Buyers Seeking $1B In July Price-Fixing Trial
Tuna buyers who are taking StarKist, its parent company and a private investment firm that put money into Bumble Bee Foods to trial on allegations of conspiring to hike the price of the tinned fish will be asking for over $1 billion in damages once all is said and done.
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April 29, 2024
StarKist Looks To Block Guilty Plea From Price-Fixing Trial
StarKist and its South Korea-based owner are urging a California federal judge to reject a bid by packaged tuna buyers to bring evidence of the tuna company's guilty plea into the civil litigation, arguing that the plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice is irrelevant to a trial over claims that major tuna brands conspired to keep prices high.
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April 09, 2024
StarKist, PE Co. Settle Tuna Price-Fixing Claims For $3.9M
Canned tuna buyers are hoping to settle their long-running price-fixing suit with StarKist and Bumble Bee, asking a California federal judge for preliminary approval of two class action payouts worth a total of $3.87 million.
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June 28, 2023
Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Found Partially Liable For Price-Fixing
A California federal judge on Tuesday found a former Bumble Bee CEO partially liable for fixing tuna prices in sprawling multidistrict litigation over the years-old scheme, but he refused wholesalers' request to find the CEO liable during time periods outside the scope of his conviction.
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May 23, 2023
Wholesalers Ask Judge To Rethink Trims In StarKist Suit
Wholesalers are asking a California federal judge to rethink a decision that trimmed certain packaged tuna price-fixing claims against StarKist, arguing the judge was able to cut years out of the allegations only by improperly requiring a "smoking gun" and ignoring important evidence.
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May 08, 2023
Tuna Buyers Want PE Firms To Stay In Price-Fixing MDL
Tuna buyers who say they paid too much for the tinned fish due to price-fixing are asking a California federal judge not to let three private equity companies out of multidistrict litigation, telling the court that they knew about the conspiracy and did nothing to stop it.