In Re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM

GENE E.K. PRATTER, District Judge.

J. Introduction

This multidistrict litigation concerns an alleged conspiracy by egg producers and trade groups to restrict the domestic supply of eggs in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. A half dozen motions to dismiss await resolution. 1 The movants seek to dismiss the claimed antitrust violation asserted against them individually in the direct purchaser plaintiffs’ Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint (hereinafter, the “SAC”) for not meeting the grade. They argue that the SAC is like a curate’s egg: although the pleading…