In Re Tableware Antitrust Litigation

ORDER

WALKER, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs in these consolidated cases allege that defendants May Department Stores Co (“May”) and Federated Department Stores, Inc (“Federated”), which operate department stores across the United States, and defendants Lenox, Inc (“Le-nox”) and Waterford Wedgwood, USA (“Waterford”), both of which produce fine tableware sold in the United States, conspired with one another to fix the price of tableware and boycott Bed, Bath and Beyond, a competitor of May and Federated. Plaintiffs bring suit under section 1 of the Sherman Act principally seeking monetary relief.

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