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Pork settlement (Direct)

If Your Business Purchased pork directly from A defendant You May Be Due Money Back

Settlement Amount: $80,606,000

Deadline: June 11, 2025

Class period

June 29, 2014, through June 30, 2018

JBS & Smithfield Settlement: January 1, 2009, through January 12, 2021

DEFENDENTS

  • Agri Stats
  • Clemens, Clemens Food Group, LLC (Settled $10,000,000)
  • Hormel, Hormel Foods Corporation (Settled $4,856,000)
  • Indiana Packers,Indiana Packers Corporation is a subsidiary of Itoham Foods, and Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
  • Seaboard, Seaboard Foods LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of Seaboard Corporation (Settled $9,750,000)
  • Triumph, Triumph Foods, LLC (Settled $4,000,000)
  • Tyson, Tyson Foods, Inc. (Settled $50,000,000)
  • JB, JBS USA Food Company (Settled $24,500,000 - Round I - Paid)
  • Smithfield, Smithfield Foods, Inc. is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group Limited, a Chinese company (Settled $77,364,30 - Round I - Paid)

CLASS MEMBERS

All persons (entities) who purchased Pork directly from any of the Defendants or any co-conspirator, or their respective subsidiaries or affiliates for use or delivery in the United States from January 1, 2009 through January 12, 2021.



The Settlement Class includes persons who purchased Pork products from any of the Defendants or their co-conspirators. (The Court dismissed Indiana Packers Corporation from this lawsuit with prejudice, but if you purchased Pork directly from Indiana Packers between June 29, 2014 and June 13, 2018, you are a member of the Settlement Class.)

BACKGROUND

DirectPurchaser Plaintiffs allege that Defendants and their co-conspirators conspired and combined to fix, raise, maintain and stabalize the price of Pork products, beginning at least as early as June 29, 2014 with the intent and expected result of increasing prices of Pork products in the United States, in violation of federal antitrust laws.


Previous Settlements (Round I) were reached with JBS & Smithfield for $107,500,000.

DEFENDANTS