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Kraft Foods Global, Inc. et al v. United Egg Producers, Inc. et al

  1. November 22, 2024

    Kraft, Others Say No Need To Stay Atty Fees After $53.3M Win

    Kraft, Kellogg, Nestle and General Mills have urged an Illinois federal judge not to delay deciding attorney fees following their $53.3 million judgment against egg producers and industry groups, saying further stalling would only prolong the already 13-year-old case.

  2. October 01, 2024

    Ill. Judge Won't Crack Jury's $18M Egg Price-Fixing Verdict

    An Illinois federal judge said Monday that he wouldn't disturb a jury's since-trebled $17.7 million award to Kraft and three others that claimed two of the nation's largest egg producers and two industry groups conspired to raise prices, saying the jury heard enough to support their claims.

  3. December 18, 2023

    Biggest Illinois Decisions Of 2023

    Illinois' state and federal courts did some heavy lifting in 2023 as they issued long-awaited guidance for litigating biometric privacy claims, resolved price-fixing allegations against major food industry suppliers and issued a pandemic-related tuition reimbursement ruling that may signal a dynamic shift within the Seventh Circuit. Here, Law360 looks back at some of the year's biggest decisions in the state.

  4. December 01, 2023

    Kraft, Kellogg Nab $18M In Egg Price-Fixing Damages

    An Illinois federal jury said Friday the nation's largest egg producers and two industry groups should pay $17.7 million to Kraft, Kellogg, Nestle and General Mills as damages for conspiring to artificially inflate prices, an award a judge said will "obviously" be trebled.

  5. November 29, 2023

    Kraft, Others Ask Jury For $25M After Egg Price-Fixing Win

    Kraft, Kellogg, Nestle and General Mills asked an Illinois federal jury Wednesday for more than $25.3 million from egg producers and trade groups, arguing that would fairly compensate them for the four years in which coordinated supply restrictions forced them to pay higher prices.

  6. November 21, 2023

    Jury Finds Egg Producers Liable In Price-Fixing Scheme

    An Illinois federal jury on Tuesday found the nation's two largest egg producers and two industry groups liable for conspiring to inflate egg prices through coordinated supply restrictions, setting the stage for a damages trial next week. 

  7. November 17, 2023

    Kraft, Others 'Concocted' Egg Price-Fixing Claims, Jury Hears

    Egg producers and industry groups fighting price-fixing allegations from Kraft, Kellogg and other major food companies argued Friday that an Illinois federal jury should reject the companies' claims because they simply "concocted a story" that fit their narrative and ignored the egg industry's reality.

  8. November 16, 2023

    Egg Price-Fixing Goals Were Sometimes 'Blatant,' Jury Hears

    Kraft, Kellogg, General Mills and Nestle on Thursday argued that an Illinois federal jury should find the nation's two largest egg producers and two industry groups liable for a price-fixing conspiracy because evidence presented at trial overwhelmingly proved the food companies' claims.

  9. November 08, 2023

    Egg Exec Denies Industry Collab Was Collusion

    Rose Acre Farms joined United Egg Producers and the organization's egg certification program to satisfy its largest customers, but organization membership didn't mean producers acted uniformly to manage their supply, the company's CEO testified Wednesday in an ongoing price-fixing trial.

  10. October 25, 2023

    Egg Exec Says Wal-Mart, Others Demanded Market Changes

    Cal-Maine's chairman testified Wednesday that the company adopted animal welfare measures not as part of a conspiracy with competitors and two trade associations to raise the price of eggs, but because customers including Wal-Mart and other major grocery chains insisted on it to protect their own brands.

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