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In Reversal, Crop Supply Antitrust Suits Paused For JPML
Law360 (May 19, 2021, 8:12 PM EDT) Further reflection has spurred an Illinois federal judge to reverse course and pause several suits by farmers accusing major agricultural suppliers of working together to fix crop input prices, putting the cases on ice until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decides on potential consolidation.
U.S. District Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel had refused in early April to hit the brakes on the eight antitrust cases before her out of at least 21 filed in various courts accusing Bayer CropScience Inc., Cargill Inc. and others of working in lockstep with brick-and-mortar retailers to swat down potentially lower priced online competitors. On Monday,.
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Bayer Tells Ill. Court Farmers Antitrust Suits Must Go To Mo.
Law360 (May 13, 2021, 9:47 PM EDT) Groups of farmers accusing agricultural suppliers of working together to fix crop input prices can t escape a forum selection clause planting their claims in Missouri federal court, Bayer told an Illinois federal judge in oral arguments Thursday.
With a Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation hearing on the farmers own consolidation bid scheduled in just two weeks, an attorney for Bayer CropScience Inc. and Bayer CropScience LP argued Thursday that all that matters is that individual plaintiffs signed a technology/stewardship agreement, or TSA, when buying seed, relegating all claims and disputes arising out of and/or connected to the agreement to the Eastern.
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