In Re: Fresh and Process Potatoes Antitrust Litigation

  1. June 18, 2015

    Potato Growers Strike $25M Deal To End Antitrust Claims

    An Idaho federal judge on Wednesday signed off on preliminary agreements between potato growers and classes of direct and indirect purchasers that would settle various antitrust claims for a combined $25 million and forbid schemes like those alleged in the complaints. 

  2. April 14, 2014

    Orrick Must Produce Docs In Potato Price-Fixing Suit

    An Idaho federal judge on Friday ordered Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and other counsel for potato growers and cooperatives accused of scheming to fix and inflate potato prices to produce certain documents related to their defenses, finding that the defendants waived attorney-client privilege as to those documents.

  3. July 30, 2012

    Potato Cos. Lose Early Exit Bids In Price-Fixing MDL

    An Idaho federal judge on Friday said three potato producers and a potato distributor could not be released from multidistrict litigation accusing them of colluding to fix prices, finding the complaint had sufficiently argued that the companies engaged in the alleged conspiracy.

  4. April 03, 2012

    Top Potato Shipper Wants Out Of Price-Fixing MDL

    Potandon Produce LLC, the country's largest fresh potato shipper, asked an Idaho federal judge Monday to dismiss it from sprawling multidistrict litigation that accuses it of involvement in an alleged potato price-fixing conspiracy, saying attempts to connect it to the scheme are flimsy.

  5. December 05, 2011

    Dole Pared From Potato Price-Fixing MDL

    An Idaho federal judge overseeing a multidistrict ligation over an alleged potato price-fixing conspiracy on Friday dismissed Dole Food Co. Inc. from the suit, but refused to toss antitrust claims against other potato growers.

  6. November 08, 2010

    Vt. Potato Antitrust Fight Shipped To Idaho MDL

    Bayer CropScience LP, United Potato Growers of America Inc. and others will fight multiple antitrust battles on one front, now that several putative class actions alleging a potato price-fixing conspiracy have been consolidated in Idaho.

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