IN RE: PACKAGED SEAFOOD PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Case Number:
3:15-md-02670
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action, Multi-district Litigation
Judge:
Firms
- Sherrard Roe
- Ahern & Associates
- Parks & Solar
- Block & Leviton
- Cherian LLP
- Shindler Anderson
- Tostrud Law Group
- Sperling & Slater
- Andrews & Pontius
- Brown Neri
- Casey Gerry
- Quinn Emanuel
- Wilson Sonsini
- Alston & Bird
- Cuneo Gilbert
- King & Spalding
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Cera LLP
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Blood Hurst
- Wilson Turner Kosmo
- Donboli Law Group
- Angeli Law Group
- Bottini & Bottini
- Faegre Drinker
- Bailey & Glasser
- Lite DePalma
- Coffman Law Firm
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Kutak Rock
- Zoll & Kranz
- Neal & Harwell
- Safirstein Law
- Stueve Siegel
- Bartko Zankel
- Kaplan Fox
- Paul Weiss
- Allen Matkins
- Mullin Hoard
- Berg Hill
- Sprouse Shrader
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Heins Mills
- Miller Shah LLP
- Mason LLP (Washington, DC)
- Kenny Nachwalter
- Hartley LLP
- Pritzker Levine
- Motley Rice
- MoginRubin
- Kralowec Law
- Anderson Kill
- Mauriello Law Firm
- Blecher Collins
- Hausfeld LLP
- Lockridge Grindal
- Gross Klein
- Janssen Malloy
- Del Mar Law Group
- Fisher & Phillips
- Cohen & Gresser
- Porter Wright
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Troutman Pepper
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Miller Pitt
- Napoli Shkolnik
- Zelle LLP
- A&O Shearman
- Marcus Neiman
- Marcus & Shapira
- Kirby McInerney
- Larson LLP
- BoiesBattin
- Boies Schiller
- Pearson Warshaw
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Nussbaum Law Group
- Bartko LLP
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Gibson Dunn
- Perkins Coie
- Hogan Lovells
- Hagens Berman
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Levi & Korsinsky
- Gustafson Gluek
- Crosner Legal
- Barrett Law Group
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Haynsworth Sinkler
- Donahue Fitzgerald
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Kazerouni Law Group
- Ademi & O'Reilly
- Gainey McKenna
- Yarborough Law Firm
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Susman Godfrey
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Latham & Watkins
- Willkie Farr
Companies
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- Kmart Corp.
- Save A Lot Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Dollar Tree Inc.
- Central Grocers Inc.
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
- The Golub Corp.
- CVS Health Corp.
- 99 Cents Only Stores LLC
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- H‑E‑B LP
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- Costco
- Bumble Bee Foods LLC
- Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- URM Stores Inc.
- Del Monte Foods Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Krasdale Foods Inc.
- Lion Capital LLP
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Target Corp.
- K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.
- Supervalu Inc.
- Affiliated Foods Midwest Cooperative Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Walmart Inc.
- Chicken of the Sea International
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Sam's Club
- Sysco Corp.
- Brookshire Grocery
- Hy-Vee
- StarKist Co.
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- Dollar General Corp.
- Dongwon F&B Co. Ltd.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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April 24, 2023
StarKist, Others Score Partial Win In Tuna Price-Fixing MDL
A California federal judge on Monday agreed to trim certain claims against StarKist Co., Del Monte Corp. and Dongwon Industries Co. Ltd. stemming from tuna purchases made before May 2011, ruling that tuna buyers haven't offered enough evidence showing that the companies had price-fixing agreements before that time.
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March 28, 2023
PE Firms Look To Slip Tuna Price-Fixing Claims
Three private equity companies that invested in Bumble Bee Foods want out of multidistrict litigation over the widespread canned tuna price-fixing conspiracy, telling a California federal court that none of them have "ever priced or sold a single can of tuna."
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March 07, 2023
Chicken Of The Sea's $13M Tuna Price-Fix Deal Gets Final OK
A California federal judge on Tuesday gave final approval to a $13 million deal — with $5.95 million going to class counsel — to settle price-fixing accusations against Chicken of the Sea International made by direct purchasers of the canned tuna product.
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October 20, 2022
California Federal Court Trims Tuna Buyers' Price-Fixing Suit
Major tuna producers were able to dodge some of the price-fixing accusations they are facing after a California federal judge found that some of the buyers' claims failed under state laws, or did not apply to the suit.
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October 12, 2022
Tuna Buyers Ask High Court To Reject StarKist Class Review
Buyers accusing major tuna producers of fixing prices through a scheme targeted by a criminal probe of the industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition from StarKist Co. seeking to decertify potentially massive classes in the case.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.