July 23, 2013
Cal-Maine Foods Inc., the country's largest egg producer, announced Tuesday that it has agreed in principle to pay $28 million to settle with all direct purchasers in multidistrict litigation accusing a host of egg trade groups of a long-running scheme to limit production and drive up prices.
May 31, 2013
Kraft Foods Global Inc. and others told a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday that they should be allowed to recover damages stretching back to the start of an alleged egg price-fixing conspiracy, arguing that the egg producers involved had concealed the scheme until 2008.
October 05, 2012
Egg producers Land O' Lakes Inc. and Sparboe Farms Inc. must continue to defend claims in an egg price-fixing multidistrict litigation, a Pennsylvania federal judge held Thursday, in a decision that maintained most claims filed by several grocers, but threw out one grocer's antitrust claims filed against Land O'Lakes.
April 26, 2012
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday that price-fixing allegations brought by indirect purchasers against half a dozen egg producers were insufficient to sustain federal antitrust claims, but was not convinced that those producers and others should be released from state law claims.
March 20, 2012
A Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday that indirect purchasers have standing to sue egg producers for price-fixing under state antitrust laws in Iowa, Mississippi and the Dakotas even though the plaintiffs neither live nor bought egg products in those jurisdictions.
December 13, 2011
Kraft Foods Global Inc. and three other major food product companies sued a group of prominent egg farmers and trade groups Monday in Illinois for allegedly conspiring to fix prices, joining the chorus of complaints over the purported plot that has already spawned multidistrict antitrust litigation.
December 01, 2011
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday limited the earliest date through which purchasers in a multidistrict litigation claiming a price-fixing conspiracy in the egg industry could allege damages, saying they hadn't sufficiently shown that the statute of limitations should be tolled.
October 17, 2011
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a multidistrict litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix egg prices, saying Michael Foods Inc. and other egg producers sought to dismiss purported claims that did not accurately reflect direct purchaser plaintiffs' arguments.
September 26, 2011
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday tossed a putative direct purchaser class' antitrust claims against Hillandale Farms Inc. and the United Egg Association, but left intact claims against other companies accused of conspiring to limit egg production and drive up prices.
June 07, 2010
Land O'Lakes Inc. and two subsidiaries have agreed to pay $25 million to settle a class action alleging they were part of a long-running conspiracy between trade groups and agricultural companies to limit production of and drive up prices for eggs.