Pork Antitrust Litigation
United States District Court District of Minnesota
Case No. 0:18-cv-01776
Background
The plaintiffs allege that the Defendants entered into a conspiracy from at least 2009 to the present to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize the price of pork, by coordinating their output and limiting production with the intent and expected result of increasing pork prices in the United States. Plaintiffs further allege that in furtherance of the conspiracy, Defendants exchanged detailed, competitively sensitive, and closely guarded non-public information about prices, capacity, sales volume and demand through their co-conspirator, Defendant Agri-Stats.
Defendants
Agri-Stats, Inc.
Clemens Food Group, LLC
Hormel Foods Corporation
Indiana Packers Corporation
JBS USA Food Company (Settled for $24.5mm with DPP)
Seaboard Foods LLC
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Triumph Foods, LLC
Tyson Foods, Inc., Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc., Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
DPP Settlement Class
All persons who purchased pork directly from any of the Defendants or any co-conspirator, or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates for use or delivery in the United States from at least as early as January 1, 2009 until the January 12, 2021.
Commercial and Institutional IPP Proposed Class
All entities who indirectly purchased pork from Defendants or co-conspirators or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates in the United States during the Settlement Class Period (January 1, 2009 through date of preliminary approval of settlement) for their own business use in commercial food preparation.
(this may be limited to Indirect Purchaser States AR, AZ, CA, DC, FL, IA, KA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WV, WI )
Indirect Purchaser Class
All persons and entities in the indirect purchaser states who indirectly purchased Pork from any of the Defendants or any co-conspirator, or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates, for personal use in the United States from January 1, 2009, until April 2, 2021.