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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
- Faegre Drinker
- Sherrard Roe
- Ahern & Associates
- Parks & Solar
- Zelle LLP
- Block & Leviton
- Boies Schiller
- Hagens Berman
- A&O Shearman
- Shindler Anderson
- Motley Rice
- Tostrud Law Group
- Andrews & Pontius
- Brown Neri
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Cera LLP
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Cherian LLP
- Sperling Kenny
- Mason LLP (Washington, DC)
- Pritzker Levine
- Donboli Law Group
- Cuneo Gilbert
- Manning Law Firm
- Bottini & Bottini
- Lite DePalma
- Bailey & Glasser
- Coffman Law Firm
- Kutak Rock
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Neal & Harwell
- Alston & Bird
- Safirstein Law
- Stueve Siegel
- Kaplan Fox
- Zoll & Kranz
- Mullin Hoard
- Blood Hurst
- Bartko LLP
- Anderson Kill
- Berg Hill
- Heins Mills
- Miller Shah LLP
- King & Spalding
- MoginRubin
- Perkins Coie
- Mauriello Law Firm
- Blecher Collins
- Lockridge Grindal
- Gross Klein
- Janssen Malloy
- Del Mar Law Group
- Cohen & Gresser
- Porter Wright
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Miller Pitt
- Napoli Shkolnik
- Marcus Neiman
- Marcus & Shapira
- Kirby McInerney
- Sprouse Shrader
- Hausfeld LLP
- Gibson Dunn
- Larson LLP
- BoiesBattin
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Nussbaum Law Group
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Casey Gerry
- Levi & Korsinsky
- Crosner Legal
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Wilson Turner Kosmo
- Barrett Law Group
- Allen Matkins
- Gustafson Gluek
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Hartley LLP
- Haynsworth Sinkler
- Kralowec Law
- Kazerouni Law Group
- Ademi & O'Reilly
- Gainey McKenna
- Hogan Lovells
- Quinn Emanuel
- Troutman
- Yarborough Law Firm
- Fisher & Phillips
- Paul Weiss
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Wilson Sonsini
- Susman Godfrey
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Latham & Watkins
- Willkie Farr
Companies
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Sam's Club
- Affiliated Foods Midwest Cooperative Inc.
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Hy-Vee
- Kmart Corp.
- Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- Save A Lot Inc.
- Dollar Tree Inc.
- Central Grocers Inc.
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
- 99 Cents Only Stores LLC
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- Costco
- Del Monte Foods Inc.
- Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Bumble Bee Foods LLC
- Krasdale Foods Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Lion Capital LLP
- The Golub Corp.
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- H‑E‑B LP
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Walmart Inc.
- Target Corp.
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Supervalu Inc.
- URM Stores Inc.
- Chicken of the Sea International
- Brookshire Grocery
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- Sysco Corp.
- CVS Health Corp.
- K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.
- StarKist Co.
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
- Dollar General Corp.
- Dongwon F&B Co. Ltd.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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May 20, 2022
Canned Tuna Buyers Tease Fight For Bellwether Status
Grocery store chains and others led by Kroger Co. used a hearing Friday in California federal court to argue their claims should take on bellwether status in the massive multidistrict litigation accusing StarKist and other canned tuna producers of price-fixing.
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April 08, 2022
En Banc 9th Circ. Affirms Cert. Of StarKist Tuna Buyers
An en banc Ninth Circuit on Friday issued a split decision affirming certification of a trio of classes of canned tuna buyers in price-fixing litigation against StarKist, ruling that the buyers' expert evidence and statistical model adequately established potential harm to consumers on classwide bases.
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March 30, 2022
Convicted Bumble Bee CEO Ducks Kansas-Based Tuna Suit
A California federal judge nixed a wholesale grocery distributor's tuna price-fixing claims against Bumble Bee Foods LLC's former CEO Monday amid multidistrict litigation, holding that the incarcerated executive lacks any ties to Kansas where the distributor first filed suit.
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March 22, 2022
Tuna Buyers Win Revival Of Price-Fix Claims Against PE Firms
A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation alleging price-fixing in the canned tuna industry has reversed a prior order dismissing buyers' claims against two British private equity funds that once owned Bumble Bee Foods LLC, finding that new evidence unearthed in discovery is sufficient for buyers to pursue antitrust claims.
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March 02, 2022
Del Monte To Face Some Post-StarKist Price-Fixing Claims
Del Monte Corp. must face claims in multidistrict litigation that it participated in a sprawling conspiracy to fix the prices of packaged tuna through 2010, when it stopped providing services to StarKist following its sale of the brand, a California federal court has ruled.
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February 14, 2022
Price Hikes Not Enough To Put Tuna Buyers On Notice
A California federal judge on Friday dealt StarKist its second blow in a week, again refusing to pare down tuna price-fixing claims — this time from consumers, restaurants, caterers and others — based on company assertions that they are at least partially time-barred.
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February 07, 2022
StarKist, Others Can't Nix Tuna Price-Fixing Claims As Too Old
A California federal judge rejected arguments from StarKist Co. and other canned tuna companies that direct purchasers' price-fixing claims are time-barred, ruling Monday that the class presented evidence that the companies fraudulently concealed their actions, thereby tolling the statute of limitations.
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February 04, 2022
StarKist Judge Keeps Guilty Plea Linked To Price-Fixing MDL
A California federal judge on Friday said he will not reconsider an order in multidistrict litigation alleging tuna price-fixing that Starkist Co.'s guilty plea — and evidence connected to the case — in parallel criminal proceedings can be used as evidence to show it participated in the sprawling conspiracy.
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January 27, 2022
Chicken Of The Sea Buyers Win OK Of $40M Price-Fix Deals
A California federal judge has signed off on three deals totaling $39.5 million resolving buyers' claims that Chicken of the Sea International schemed with other seafood producers to jack up the price of canned tuna, bringing an end to years of antitrust litigation against the tuna giant.
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January 06, 2022
Buyer Says Ex-Tuna Exec On Hook For Price-Fixing Claims
A grocery wholesaler suing for overcharges allegedly stemming from a sprawling price-fixing scheme among the country's largest canned tuna producers is urging a California federal court to find the former CEO of Bumble Bee liable in the case based on his criminal conviction.