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January 26, 2021
Turkey wholesalers and a statistics aggregator defending price-fixing conspiracy claims have submitted their final brief in support of their motion for a protective order limiting the scope of discovery. The defendantsâ reply brief, filed last week, reiterates their earlier position that the plaintiffs have levied burdensome discovery requests in an effort to âtrawlâ for information resurrecting dismissed or supporting new claims.
The brief explains that the plaintiffs assert âa single rule of reason claim,â that between 2010 and 2017, through industry data aggregator Agri Stats, the defendants exchanged production and sales date information that gave rise to a conspiracy to raise and fix prices. The case is proceeding through discovery after the plaintiffsâ federal antitrust claims and most of their state antitrust and consumer protection claims survived the motion to dismiss phase.