In Re Chocolate Confectionary Antitrust Litigation

OPINION OF THE COURT

FISHER, Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated antitrust conspiracy cases, two groups of plaintiffs, one a certified class of direct purchasers of chocolate products (“the Direct Purchaser Class”), and the other a group of individual plaintiffs (“the Individual Plaintiffs”) (collectively, “the Plaintiffs”), appeal the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of defendants The Hershey Company (“Hershey”); Hershey Canada, Inc.; Nes tlé USA, Inc.; and Mars, Inc. and Mars Snackfood U.S., LLC (collectively, “Mars”) (all appellees are collectively referred to as “the Chocolate…