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On March 26, 2021, Southern District of Florida District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied a motion to dismiss an antitrust class action alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of farm-raised Atlantic salmon globally.
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According to the Plaintiffs’ Second Consolidated Amended Complaint, the Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to increase salmon prices by manipulating the NASDAQ Salmon Index that provides weekly spot market pricing for salmon in Norway.
[2] The NASDAQ Salmon Index was created in 2013 when the conspiracy is alleged to have begun.
[3] Because the majority of the world’s salmon comes from Norway, the NASDAQ Salmon Index serves as the benchmark for salmon pricing around the world.
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Rabobank, a Dutch financial company, argued on Monday that the Northern District of Illinois should dismiss claims against it in the consolidated lawsuit regarding anti-competitive activities in the broiler chicken industry. The defendant claimed that the Direct Action Plaintiffs’ allegations in their Amended Consolidated Complaint were not sufficient and that they did not contest Rabobank’s arguments in its opening memorandum.
In its reply, the defendant said the plaintiffs agreed that to keep the claims from being dismissed “they must allege that Rabobank knew of the alleged output-reduction conspiracy, was aware of its scope, agreed to play a defined role in it, and furthered the conspiracy in a meaningful way.” Instead of addressing this, however, Rabobank said the “plaintiffs attack straw men and rely on evidence outside their complaint to argue that they plausibly have alleged Rabobank joined a massive, nationwide,
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March 4, 2021
Although settlements are starting to close some matters in the consolidated lawsuit purporting anticompetitive conduct in the chicken processing marketplace, some restaurants are just joining the matter, adding their allegations to many others. On Wednesday, The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated filed a complaint in the matter, and on Monday a complaint was filed by Supply Management Services, Inc., a Georgia corporation which supplies Popeyeâs restaurants. Â
The Cheesecake Factoryâs complaint, which has been moved into the Northern District of Illinois consolidated matter, cited that the California-based company operates 294 restaurants in the United States and Canada. It has contracted with the defendants, which includes multiple chicken processing companies, to provide its supply of broiler chickens through its distributors Nealy Foods, Inc. and Halpernsâ Steak and Seafood Company. These distributors reportedly
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February 16, 2021
Last week, CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., the company which owns Hardeeâs and Carlâs Jr., filed a complaint in the Illinois Northern District Court related to the consolidated broiler chicken antitrust lawsuit held in the same court.Â
CKE, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Tennessee, reportedly operates over 3,800 restaurants throughout 44 states. The locations on the West Coast are known as Carlâs Jr. while locations on the East Coast are known as Hardeeâs. The company explained that it negotiated and contracted with defendants to supply broiler chickens under specific contracts to its restaurants. Â