January 06, 2020
Kroger Co. and nearly a dozen other big-name grocery chains want the Third Circuit to undo a Pennsylvania federal jury verdict which killed their claims that the country's second-largest egg producer and two industry groups hatched a plan to raise the price of eggs.
December 12, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal jury on Thursday rejected claims that the nation's second-largest egg producer conspired with two industry groups in an anti-competitive scheme to reduce the supply of egg-laying hens and inflate commodity prices for grocery stores.
December 10, 2019
What a string of major grocery chains say was a scheme to jack up egg prices through an industry program to reduce the number of egg-producing hens was actually a product of their own demand for improved animal welfare, a Pennsylvania federal jury heard during closing statements in a six-week antitrust trial on Tuesday.
November 04, 2019
A major egg industry association hatched a plan to hike up the price of eggs for supermarkets through a pretextual program it said was designed to improve living conditions for hens, a jury heard during opening statements in an antitrust trial that kicked off in Pennsylvania federal court on Monday.
October 28, 2019
Heinz told a Pennsylvania federal court that it plans to drop its claims over alleged price-fixing of egg products after losing a bid to move the case to Illinois, where its merger partner, Kraft, is suing producers.
October 23, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge rejected Heinz's bid to move multidistrict litigation over the alleged price-fixing of egg products to the Illinois court where its merger partner, Kraft, is suing producers, saying the cases involve separate witnesses and events that took place before the merger.
October 03, 2019
Several producers facing allegations of egg product price-fixing have urged a Pennsylvania federal judge not to let H.J. Heinz Co. move its suit to the Illinois court where its corporate partner Kraft is suing, saying the transfer bid amounts to forum shopping.
September 19, 2019
The former H.J. Heinz Co. wants to split from the other plaintiffs in Philadelphia-based multidistrict litigation over the alleged price-fixing of egg products so its claims can be tried alongside its new corporate partner, Kraft, in Chicago, according to a filing Wednesday in Pennsylvania federal court.
August 23, 2019
Unilever, a personal care company that also sells food, has announced that it reached a deal Thursday with Rose Acre Farms in multidistrict litigation alleging that egg producers conspired to fix prices.
June 28, 2019
Shell egg purchasers in multidistrict litigation alleging producers conspired to fix prices urged the Third Circuit on Thursday to rule that a producer had committed a so-called per se antitrust violation after a lower court's ruling that the purchasers say flouts U.S. Supreme Court precedent.