IN RE PORK ANTITRUST LITIGATION

  1. February 24, 2020

    Pork Buyers Bite Into Dismissal Bid On Renewed Claims

    Meat buyers defended rejiggered class action price-fixing claims they proposed in Minnesota federal court following attacks from Smithfield, Tyson and other major pork producers, with the buyers arguing they have more than adequately connected the producers' cutbacks in output to higher pork prices.

  2. August 08, 2019

    Pork Buyers See Tyson Price-Fixing Claims Axed, For Now

    Smithfield, Tyson and other major pork producers scored a large win Thursday when a Minnesota federal judge dismissed without prejudice a consolidated class action brought by three groups of meat purchasers that accused the companies of conspiring to increase the price of pork products.