Law360, New York (April 13, 2009) -- In multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the chocolate industry, a federal judge has agreed to allow a group of chocolate makers to immediately appeal a recent ruling that the plaintiffs' claims had sufficiently cleared a hurdle put in place by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Co. v. Twombly.
In a ruling issued Wednesday, Judge Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania certified an interlocutory appeal, noting that the Twombly standard is...
