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
- Ademi & O'Reilly
- Ahern & Associates
- Allen Matkins
- Alston & Bird
- Anderson Kill
- Andrews & Pontius
- Angeli Law Group
- A&O Shearman
- Bailey & Glasser
- Barrett Law Group
- Bartko LLP
- Bartko Zankel
- Berg Hill
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Blecher Collins
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Block & Leviton
- Blood Hurst
- BoiesBattin
- Boies Schiller
- Bottini & Bottini
- Brown Neri
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Casey Gerry
- Cera LLP
- Cherian LLP
- Coffman Law Firm
- Cohen & Gresser
- Crosner Legal
- Cuneo Gilbert
- Del Mar Law Group
- Donahue Fitzgerald
- Donboli Law Group
- Faegre Drinker
- Fisher & Phillips
- Gainey McKenna
- Gibson Dunn
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Gross Klein
- Gustafson Gluek
- Hagens Berman
- Hartley LLP
- Hausfeld LLP
- Haynsworth Sinkler
- Heins Mills
- Hogan Lovells
- Janssen Malloy
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Kaplan Fox
- Kazerouni Law Group
- Kenny Nachwalter
- King & Spalding
- Kirby McInerney
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Kralowec Law
- Kutak Rock
- Larson LLP
- Latham & Watkins
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Levi & Korsinsky
- Lite DePalma
- Lockridge Grindal
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Marcus Neiman
- Marcus & Shapira
- Mason LLP (Washington, DC)
- Mauriello Law Firm
- Miller Pitt
- Miller Shah LLP
- MoginRubin
- Motley Rice
- Mullin Hoard
- Napoli Shkolnik
- Neal & Harwell
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Nussbaum Law Group
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Parks & Solar
- Paul Weiss
- Pearson Warshaw
- Perkins Coie
- Porter Wright
- Pritzker Levine
- Quinn Emanuel
- Safirstein Law
- Sherrard Roe
- Shindler Anderson
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Sperling & Slater
- Sprouse Shrader
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Stueve Siegel
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Susman Godfrey
- Tostrud Law Group
- Troutman Pepper
- Willkie Farr
- Wilson Sonsini
- Wilson Turner Kosmo
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Yarborough Law Firm
- Zelle LLP
- Zoll & Kranz
Companies
- 99 Cents Only Stores LLC
- Affiliated Foods Midwest Cooperative Inc.
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Brookshire Grocery
- Bumble Bee Foods LLC
- Central Grocers Inc.
- Costco
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers
- CVS Health Corp.
- Del Monte Foods Inc.
- Dollar General Corp.
- Dollar Tree Inc.
- Dongwon F&B Co. Ltd.
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- H‑E‑B LP
- Hy-Vee
- Kmart Corp.
- Krasdale Foods Inc.
- K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.
- Lion Capital LLP
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Sam's Club
- Save A Lot Inc.
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- StarKist Co.
- Supervalu Inc.
- Sysco Corp.
- Target Corp.
- The Golub Corp.
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- URM Stores Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Walmart Inc.
- Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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March 21, 2019
Chicken Of The Sea, Target Reach Deal Over Tuna Price-Fixing
Target Corp. and two food distributors on Thursday cut loose Chicken of the Sea from sprawling multidistrict litigation in California federal court, agreeing to resolve allegations that the packaged seafood producer fixed prices for canned tuna.
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March 15, 2019
StarKist Settles Tuna Price-Fixing Claims With Kroger, Others
StarKist Co. announced Friday that it has agreed to a settlement with Kroger Co. and other retailers to resolve allegations of a widespread tuna price-fixing conspiracy that have been the focus of multidistrict litigation in California federal court.
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February 26, 2019
Bumble Bee Settles US Foods' Tuna Price-Fixing Suit
Bumble Bee has inked a deal with distribution giant US Foods that brings it closer to extricating itself from sprawling litigation accusing major tuna companies of conspiring to fix the price of canned fish.
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February 14, 2019
Bumble Bee, Sysco Strike Deal To End Tuna Price-Fixing Suit
Bumble Bee Foods LLC has reached a deal with Sysco Corp. to end claims that it colluded with other major tuna companies in a widespread conspiracy to keep prices for canned fish high.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.