Assessing Maple Leaf Foods' Exposure After Being Added As Bread Price-Fixing Class Action Defendant
June 21, 2018 | 1 min to read
Given the billions of dollars in damages potentially involved, the upcoming class-action showdown between two plaintiffs and the country’s bread makers and some of its leading grocery stores promises to be a dandy.
Much of the preliminary work for that lawsuit — which is taking place as the criminal investigation by the Competition Bureau over an alleged packaged bread price-fixing conspiracy continues — has now been largely completed.
Two Ontario based firms — Strosberg Sasso Sutts LLP and Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP — have been selected to bring the case forward for a trial that will be held in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice. In turn those two (which beat out about 10 other candidates, including some that were filed in the federal courts) will be assisted by a Quebec-based firm, Renno Vathilakis Avocats.
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