Ploss v. Kraft Foods Group, Inc. et al

  1. July 15, 2020

    Kraft Wants Name Out Of Wheat Market Suit's URL

    Kraft Foods is asking an Illinois federal judge not to allow its name to be used in the URL of the website for the certified class action accusing it and its snack food spinoff of manipulating the wheat market.

  2. February 24, 2020

    7th Circ. Rejects Kraft's Bid To Decertify Wheat Suit Class

    The Seventh Circuit will not consider a bid by Kraft Foods and snack food spinoff Mondelez Global LLC to decertify a class of investors in a wheat market manipulation suit playing out in Illinois federal court.

  3. January 22, 2020

    Kraft Urges 7th Circ. To Decertify Class In Wheat Market Suit

    Kraft Foods has asked the Seventh Circuit to allow it to immediately appeal certification of a class of investors in a wheat market manipulation suit that it says is overly broad and caused the company's potential exposure in the case to skyrocket. 

  4. January 03, 2020

    Kraft Investors Get Class Cert. In Wheat Market Rigging Suit

    An Illinois federal judge on Friday certified a class of investors accusing Kraft Foods Group Inc. of manipulating the wheat commodities market, rejecting the snack food giant's arguments that the investors' claims and damages are too individualized to be resolved on a class-wide basis.

  5. February 11, 2019

    Kraft Blasts Cert. Bid In Wheat Market Rigging Suit

    Kraft Food Groups Inc. has asked an Illinois federal court to reject an investor's bid for class status in a suit accusing the food giant of manipulating the wheat commodities market, saying the proposed group is overly broad.

  6. October 02, 2018

    Kraft Wheat Buys Hurt Hundreds Of Investors, Court Told

    A group of investors asked an Illinois federal judge Monday to certify a class in their suit alleging that Kraft Foods Inc. and a snack-food spinoff hurt commodity traders by manipulating wheat prices in 2011.

  7. July 17, 2018

    Kraft Must Share Expert Reports In Wheat Market Action

    The Illinois federal judge handling a proposed investor class action accusing Kraft Foods Group Inc. of manipulating the wheat futures market ordered the company Tuesday to produce expert reports exchanged in the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's similar case against it, rejecting Kraft's claim the production would be unfairly harmful.

  8. July 16, 2018

    Kraft Says Traders Shouldn't Get CFTC Reports In Wheat Row

    A proposed class of traders suing Kraft over its alleged manipulation of the wheat futures market shouldn't get expert reports from a parallel U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit, the food giant told an Illinois federal judge Monday, arguing the material would give them an unfair advantage.

  9. December 06, 2016

    Kraft Wants Factual Info In Wheat Futures Manipulation Row

    Kraft Foods Group Inc. on Monday asked an Illinois federal court to require traders in a securities suit to turn over factual information related to their allegations that Kraft manipulated the price of wheat commodities and futures in 2011, saying those facts are essential to crafting a defense.

  10. September 02, 2016

    Kraft Must Wait To Appeal Wheat Futures Manipulation Ruling

    An Illinois judge on Friday declined to allow Kraft Foods Group Inc. to launch an interlocutory appeal of his decision refusing to dismiss a proposed class action that alleged the food giant manipulated the wheat futures market, finding it unlikely the decision would be reversed.

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