Legal Opinion
In Re: McCormick & Company, Inc., Pepper Products Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 11, 2016No. Misc. No. 2015-1825PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Ellen Segal Huvelle, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs, who are retail purchasers of black pepper supplied by defendant McCormick & Co., claim that they were deceived about the amount of pepper in the containers and paid inflated prices for them as a result of a conspiracy between McCormick and its retailers, including defendant Wal-Mart. Plaintiffs claim that defendants violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 (Count I), violated consumer protection statutes in twenty-five different states (Count II), and were unjustly enriched under the laws of all fifty…
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