IN RE: PACKAGED SEAFOOD PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

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Case Number:

3:15-md-02670

Court:

California Southern

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Dana M. Sabraw

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  1. August 11, 2022

    StarKist Asks High Court To Reject Tuna Buyers Class Cert.

    StarKist Co. has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court for help in decertifying potentially massive classes of plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over price-fixing allegations by the major tuna producers, saying that many of the proposed class members didn't actually pay higher prices.

  2. August 09, 2022

    Judge Revives Price-Fixing Suit Against Ex-Bumble Bee CEO

    The former head of Bumble Bee tuna is once again facing a price-fixing suit in Kansas after a California federal judge revived multidistrict litigation brought by a wholesale grocery chain against the CEO, Christopher Lischewski.

  3. July 20, 2022

    StarKist Can't Can 'Private Label' Tuna Claims

    A California federal judge refused to let StarKist and its parent company slip certain claims in multidistrict litigation alleging canned tuna price-fixing, finding there are triable issues regarding whether the conspiracy reached tuna products StarKist sold to major retailers for sale under those companies' brand names.

  4. May 23, 2022

    Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Fights Redo Bid In Kansas Tuna Suit

    Bumble Bee Foods LLC's former CEO urged the California federal judge overseeing tuna price-fixing multidistrict litigation to reject on Friday a wholesale grocery distributor's bid to revive its suit against the incarcerated executive, saying it just "rehashes" issues already addressed by the court.

  5. May 20, 2022

    Canned Tuna Buyers Tease Fight For Bellwether Status

    Grocery store chains and others led by Kroger Co. used a hearing Friday in California federal court to argue their claims should take on bellwether status in the massive multidistrict litigation accusing StarKist and other canned tuna producers of price-fixing.

  6. April 08, 2022

    En Banc 9th Circ. Affirms Cert. Of StarKist Tuna Buyers

    An en banc Ninth Circuit on Friday issued a split decision affirming certification of a trio of classes of canned tuna buyers in price-fixing litigation against StarKist, ruling that the buyers' expert evidence and statistical model adequately established potential harm to consumers on classwide bases.

  7. March 30, 2022

    Convicted Bumble Bee CEO Ducks Kansas-Based Tuna Suit

    A California federal judge nixed a wholesale grocery distributor's tuna price-fixing claims against Bumble Bee Foods LLC's former CEO Monday amid multidistrict litigation, holding that the incarcerated executive lacks any ties to Kansas where the distributor first filed suit.

  8. March 22, 2022

    Tuna Buyers Win Revival Of Price-Fix Claims Against PE Firms

    A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation alleging price-fixing in the canned tuna industry has reversed a prior order dismissing buyers' claims against two British private equity funds that once owned Bumble Bee Foods LLC, finding that new evidence unearthed in discovery is sufficient for buyers to pursue antitrust claims.

  9. March 02, 2022

    Del Monte To Face Some Post-StarKist Price-Fixing Claims

    Del Monte Corp. must face claims in multidistrict litigation that it participated in a sprawling conspiracy to fix the prices of packaged tuna through 2010, when it stopped providing services to StarKist following its sale of the brand, a California federal court has ruled.

  10. February 14, 2022

    Price Hikes Not Enough To Put Tuna Buyers On Notice

    A California federal judge on Friday dealt StarKist its second blow in a week, again refusing to pare down tuna price-fixing claims — this time from consumers, restaurants, caterers and others — based on company assertions that they are at least partially time-barred.

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