Legal Opinion
In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided November 12, 2015No. 08-md-2002PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*176AMENDED MEMORANDUM1
GENE E.K. PRATTER, District Judge
The nation’s major egg producers are accused by those who purchase eggs directly from them of conspiring to control and limit the supply of eggs and thereby increase the prices of eggs. The claims allege that the Defendants accomplished this objective through three principal means: (1) a series of explicit, short-term production-restriction programs, such as slaughtering hens prematurely; (2) a pretextual animal-welfare program; and (3) a series of exports of eggs at below-market prices.
In addition to a putative class of direct purchasers of…
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