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
- Crosner Legal
- Gustafson Gluek
- Parks & Solar
- Bleichmar Fonti
- Block & Leviton
- Wilson Turner Kosmo
- Shindler Anderson
- Tostrud Law Group
- Kazerouni Law Group
- Andrews & Pontius
- Angeli & Calfo
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Zelle LLP
- Cera LLP
- Nicholas & Tomasevic
- Lockridge Grindal
- Cherian LLP
- Bartko Pavia
- Pritzker Levine
- Donboli Law Group
- Blood Hurst
- Cuneo Gilbert
- Manning Law Firm
- Motley Rice
- Coffman Law Firm
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Wilson Sonsini
- King & Spalding
- Barrett Law Group
- Safirstein Law
- Stueve Siegel
- Neal & Harwell
- Berg Hill
- Gibson Dunn
- Heins Mills
- Fisher & Phillips
- Anderson Kill
- Troutman
- Porter Wright
- Mullin Hoard
- Hogan Lovells
- Zoll & Kranz
- Sprouse Shrader
- Markowitz Herbold
- Mauriello Law Firm
- Blecher Collins
- Gross Klein
- Janssen Malloy
- Del Mar Law Group
- Gibbs Mura
- Casey Gerry
- Hagens Berman
- Buchanan Ingersoll
- Miller Pitt
- Napoli Shkolnik
- Marcus Neiman
- Marcus & Shapira
- BoiesBattin
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Nussbaum Law Group
- Bailey & Glasser
- Kaplan Fox
- Faegre Drinker
- Sherrard Roe
- Brown Neri
- Allen Matkins
- Perkins Coie
- Law Offices of Francis O. Scarpulla
- Hartley LLP
- Haynsworth Sinkler
- Hausfeld LLP
- Kralowec Law
- Larson LLP
- Kutak Rock
- Ademi & O'Reilly
- Gainey McKenna
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Mogin Law
- Yarborough Law Firm
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Paul Weiss
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Quinn Emanuel
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Levi & Korsinsky
- Lite DePalma
- Boies Schiller
- Sperling Kenny
- Miller Shah
- Susman Godfrey
- Alston & Bird
- Kirby McInerney
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- A&O Shearman
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Latham & Watkins
- Willkie Farr
Companies
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Affiliated Foods Midwest Cooperative Inc.
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- Kmart Corp.
- Save A Lot Inc.
- Target Corp.
- Dollar Tree Inc.
- Central Grocers Inc.
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
- Associated Grocers of New England
- 99 Cents Only Stores LLC
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers
- Bumble Bee Foods LLC
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- Costco
- Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.
- Del Monte Foods Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Krasdale Foods Inc.
- Lion Capital LLP
- K-VA-T Food Stores Inc.
- The Golub Corp.
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Certco Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- Sam's Club
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Hy-Vee
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Walmart Inc.
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Supervalu Inc.
- CVS Health Corp.
- URM Stores Inc.
- Chicken of the Sea International
- Brookshire Grocery
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- Sysco Corp.
- StarKist Co.
- Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
- H‑E‑B LP
- Dollar General Corp.
- Dongwon F&B Co. Ltd.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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May 08, 2023
Tuna Buyers Want PE Firms To Stay In Price-Fixing MDL
Tuna buyers who say they paid too much for the tinned fish due to price-fixing are asking a California federal judge not to let three private equity companies out of multidistrict litigation, telling the court that they knew about the conspiracy and did nothing to stop it.
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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.