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In Re Cattle Antitrust Litigation

  1. January 03, 2022

    Food & Beverage Cases To Watch In 2022

    Food and beverage attorneys will have their hands full in 2022 litigating a slew of claims that baby food contains toxic heavy metals, that environmentally sustainable products don't live up to their claims, that "natural" labeling is misleading, and that poultry, pork and beef producers rigged product prices.

  2. September 15, 2021

    Tyson, 3 Others Must Face Cattle Ranchers' Price-Fixing Case

    The nation's four largest meatpacking companies, including Tyson Foods Inc. and Cargill Inc., can't escape a suit from ranchers accusing them of scheming to drive down beef prices, a Minnesota federal judge has ruled.

  3. July 12, 2021

    Meatpackers, Cattle Ranchers Spar Over Price-Fix Suit

    Tyson Foods Inc., Cargill Inc. and other meatpackers urged a Minnesota federal judge Monday to throw out three amended lawsuits accusing them of scheming to drive down beef prices, arguing that ranchers have failed to fix ​​various defects the court outlined last year when it gave them a third chance to revise their claims.

  4. September 29, 2020

    Meatpackers Duck Cattle Ranchers' Antitrust Suit, For Now

    A Minnesota federal court has tossed a suit from cattle ranchers accusing the nation's largest meatpacking companies of colluding to drive down the prices paid for live cattle, but gave the ranchers an opportunity to fix their claims.

  5. September 11, 2020

    Ranchers To Get Docs From DOJ Meatpacking Investigation

    A Minnesota federal court will allow cattle ranchers accusing the nation's largest meatpacking companies of colluding to drive down prices to see some documents turned over in an antitrust investigation into the industry by the U.S. Department of Justice.

  6. July 27, 2020

    Ranchers Want Meatpackers To Share Docs From DOJ Probe

    Meatpackers who stand accused of plotting to drive down the price of cattle should have to give the ranchers suing them access to the same documents they recently had to turn over to the U.S. Department of Justice for its own antitrust probe, a Minnesota federal court heard.

  7. January 13, 2020

    Meatpackers Push To Ditch Cattle Ranchers' Price-Fix Suit

    A group of meatpackers facing a recently consolidated class action suit by ranchers accusing them of scheming to drive down beef prices has urged a Minnesota federal judge to toss the suit, saying it fails to establish that the processors coordinated to reduce the volume of cattle slaughtered.

  8. July 11, 2019

    Cattle Price-Fixing Cases Consolidated In Minnesota

    A Minnesota federal court ruled Wednesday that some of the country's largest meatpacking companies, including Tyson and Cargill, will now face consolidated allegations of colluding to drive down prices of cattle used for beef production.

  9. May 08, 2019

    Ranchers Rope Meatpackers Into New Price-Fix Suits

    A group of ranchers plans to haul some of the country's largest meatpacking companies including Tyson into Minnesota and Missouri federal courts with accusations of cattle price-fixing in new antitrust suits that mirror an earlier suit filed in Illinois.

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