October 23, 2023
Cal-Maine's chairman testified Monday that he and executives of the company's competitors sat on trade association committees that urged the egg industry as a whole to adopt measures to reduce the supply of eggs in the United States, with the participation of various producers often documented in the association's newsletters.
October 19, 2023
Two top egg producers and two trade associations conspired to raise prices and forced major food companies to pay inflated costs to make food products found "in just about every cabinet and every kitchen table," counsel for Kraft, Kellogg, General Mills and Nestle told an Illinois federal jury Thursday.
September 19, 2023
An Illinois federal judge has held that Kraft and other food companies met their burden of showing it was more likely than not that a group of prominent egg farmers and trade groups had conspired to inflate egg prices, for the purpose of admitting statements made by the alleged co-conspirators at an October antitrust trial.
August 11, 2023
An Illinois federal judge said Friday that he will follow a multidistrict litigation court's lead and split an upcoming egg price-fixing trial into a liability phase and damages phase, saying that, with defense wins logged in two previous trials, "maybe past will be prologue."
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.