Canada’s Top Court Won’t Hear Bread Price-Fixing Witness Case

September 17, 2019 Canadian Press

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal of a lower court decision that kept the identities of a pair of key witnesses in the Competition Bureau’s bread price-fixing investigation confidential.

Pork Producers Win Dismissal of Price-Fixing Lawsuits – U.S. Judge

August 9, 2019 Jonathan Stempel, Reuters

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed antitrust lawsuits accusing several U.S. pork companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $20 billion-a-year market, in order to inflate prices and their own profits at the expense of consumers and other purchasers.

Why Chicken Producers Are Under Investigation for Price Fixing

Price-fixing claims against the chicken producers have been floating around for years, in suits like the one in Illinois, but the government’s involvement is a potentially significant escalation because it means criminal charges could follow.