August 28, 2023
The Third Circuit on Monday upheld a defense verdict in grocery chain Winn-Dixie's antitrust lawsuit alleging regional mushroom-growing cooperatives conspired to fix prices, reasoning that the supermarket chain did not show evidence that the cooperative's members entered into a conspiracy that damaged the market.
March 15, 2022
United Mushroom Farms Cooperative Inc. has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to dismiss Winn-Dixie's antitrust claims alleging it worked with the Eastern Mushroom Marketing Cooperative to fix mushroom prices, arguing that the supermarket chain doesn't have evidence of a conspiracy.
January 26, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge handed Winn-Dixie Stores a win on Wednesday, finding that even though a mushroom farm cooperative changed its name, the group hasn't done enough to qualify for antitrust immunity in the supermarket company's price-fixing suit.
May 13, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday nixed a group of mushroom farms' bid for a partial win in a price-fixing suit brought by Winn-Dixie, finding that an ownership question pertaining to one of the farms remains an issue of material fact that cannot be resolved at this time.
August 09, 2019
Winn-Dixie didn't properly notify a mushroom farm about its price-fixing allegations, so the farm should be dismissed from the grocery store chain's lawsuit, Franklin Organic Mushrooms told a Pennsylvania federal court.
May 09, 2019
A defendant in an antitrust dispute over the alleged price-fixing of mushrooms asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday to recuse himself, saying he took part in closed-door settlement talks without inviting the defendant's counsel to the table.
April 08, 2019
Southern supermarket chains Winn-Dixie and Bi-Lo had antitrust claims shaved from their suit accusing mushroom farmers of plotting to fix the price of fresh Agaricus mushrooms by a Pennsylvania federal court Monday.
March 06, 2019
A mushroom-farming cooperative shouldn't be allowed to duck a suit accusing it of participating in a plot to fix the price of fresh Agaricus mushrooms, southern supermarket chains Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie told a Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday.
January 08, 2019
Supermarket chain Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. can't include individual farms in its lawsuit accusing a mushroom-farming cooperative of anti-competitive practices, after a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that membership in the cooperative alone was not enough for the farms to be accused of conspiracy.
October 25, 2018
A mushroom farm has vigorously defended its move to dismiss Winn-Dixie's complaint accusing it of conspiring with a cooperative to fix prices, claiming a Pennsylvania federal judge never fully addressed the farm's arguments and blasting the supermarket for suggesting otherwise.