IN RE: PACKAGED SEAFOOD PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION

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Case overview

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. January 25, 2019

    StarKist Settles Walmart's Tuna Price-Fixing Claims For $20M

    StarKist Co. announced Friday that it has agreed to a settlement worth more than $20 million with Walmart Inc. to resolve allegations of a widespread tuna price-fixing conspiracy that have been the focus of multidistrict litigation in California federal court.

  2. December 19, 2018

    Retailers Chop Chicken Of The Sea From Tuna Price-Fix MDL

    Thirty food retailers including Kmart, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have cut Chicken of the Sea from massive multidistrict litigation in California federal court accusing packaged seafood producers of fixing prices for canned tuna.

  3. November 30, 2018

    Kansas Grocer Fights To Keep Ex-Tuna Exec On The Hook

    Kansas City-based grocery company Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. asked a federal court Thursday to keep alive its price-fixing suit against Bumble Bee Foods' former CEO, challenging the executive's bid to toss the case over questions of jurisdiction and timeliness.

  4. November 05, 2018

    PE Firms Look To Nix Buyers' Tuna Price-Fixing Claims

    Two linked private equity firms that own Bumble Bee Foods LLC have told a California federal court they want to dismiss the latest claims of tuna price-fixing by direct purchasers, indirect purchasers, commercial food preparers, end payors and the Cherokee Nation, arguing that the plaintiffs can't show the firms participated in a conspiracy.

  5. October 22, 2018

    Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Wants Kansas Grocers' Suit Tossed

    The former chief of Bumble Bee Foods LLC accused of a tuna price-fixing plot has urged a California federal judge to let him escape an antitrust suit, arguing that a grocery group blundered by suing him personally in Kansas.

  6. October 03, 2018

    Tuna Cos. Skewer Food Preparer Cert. Bid In Price-Fix MDL

    Seafood producers have blasted the efforts of commercial food preparers to win class status in multidistrict litigation over alleged tuna price-fixing, telling a California federal judge Tuesday there's no way to show common damages that justify collective action.

  7. September 11, 2018

    DOJ Presses To Halt Discovery In Tuna Price-Fixing MDL

    Prosecutors have asked a California federal judge to delay discovery in a civil tuna price-fixing case against Bumble Bee Foods' ex-CEO, saying some depositions could interfere with the government's criminal case against him.

  8. September 07, 2018

    UK Equity Firm Partly Escapes Tuna Price-Fix Claims

    The British private equity firm that owns Bumble Bee Foods can largely slip the net of multidistrict litigation over an alleged tuna fish price-fixing plot, a California federal judge ruled, but the firm's American arm still faces potential antitrust class actions.

  9. September 06, 2018

    Cherokee Nation Tossed From Tuna Price-Fixing MDL

    The Cherokee Nation lacks standing to sue packaged tuna producers Bumble Bee Foods LLC, Chicken of the Sea and StarKist Co. for an alleged price-fixing conspiracy, a California federal judge has ruled in ejecting the tribe from a broader multidistrict litigation.

  10. May 30, 2018

    Multiple Classes Seek Cert. In Tuna Price-Fixing MDL

    Consumers and commercial food preparers of packaged tuna urged a California federal court to certify their class allegations against Chicken of the Sea, StarKist Co. and Bumble Bee Foods LLC, arguing they have proven their claims of a price-fixing conspiracy should advance.

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