IN RE MUSHROOM DIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST

Nos. 09-2257, 09-2258.

655 F.3d 158 (2011)

In re MUSHROOM DIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Eastern Mushroom Marketing Cooperative Inc.; Kaolin Mushroom Farms Inc.; To-Jo Fresh Mushrooms Inc.; Cardile Mushrooms Inc.; Cardile Bros. Mushrooms Packaging; Monterey Mushrooms Inc.; Phillips Mushrooms Farms, L.P.; Modern Mushroom Farms Inc.; Sher-Rockee Mushroom Farm; C & C Carriage Mushroom Co.; John Pia; Brownstone Mushroom Farms Inc.; Country Fresh Mushroom Co.; Robert A. Feranto, Jr., t/a/ Bella Mushroom Farms; Forest Mushroom Inc.; Gaspari Bros. Inc.; Gino Gaspari & Sons, Inc.; Giorgio Mushroom Company; Giorgio Foods Inc.; Harvest Fresh Farms Inc.; Leone Pizzini and Son, Inc.; Louis M. Marson, Jr., Inc.; LRP Mushrooms Inc.; LRP-M Mushrooms LLC; Oakshire Mushroom Farm, Inc.; Michael Pia; South Mill Mushroom Sales, Inc.; United Mushroom Farms Cooperative, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: August 23, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry L. Refsin [Argued], Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, Philadelphia, PA, David M. Buckner , Adam M. Moskowitz , Thomas A. Tucker Ronzetti , Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, Miami, FL, John G. Odom , Stuart E. Des Roches , Andrew W. Kelly , John A. Meade , Odom & Des Roches, New Orleans, LA, Manuel J. Dominguez , Berman DeValerio , Palm Beach Gardens, FL, W. Ross Foote , David P. Smith , Percy Smith & Foote, Alexandria, LA, Bruce E. Gerstein , Kevin S. Landau , Noah Silverman , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, New York, NY, for Direct Purchaser Class Plaintiffs, Plaintiff-Appellee.

David P. Germaine , Vanek, Vickers & Masini, Chicago, IL, Ira N. Richards , Trujillo, Rodriguez & Richards, Philadelphia, PA, for Publix Super Markets, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee.

Moira E. Cain-Mannix , Scott D. Livingston , Bernard D. Marcus , Marcus & Shapira, Pittsburgh, PA, for Giant Eagle, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Terri A. Pawelski , Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Martin I. Twersky [Argued], H. Laddie Montague, Jr. , Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for Mushroom Cooperative Defendants, Defendant-Appellant.

Jacqueline P. Rubin , Moses Silverman , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for Giorgio Mushroom Co., and Giorgio Foods, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Mark A. Wachlin , Dilworth Paxson , Terri A. Pawelski , Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, for Franklin Farms, Inc., Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, for Creekside Mushrooms, Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, D. Richard Funk , Conner & Winters, Tulsa, OK, for JM Farms, Inc., Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, Neill C. Kling , Francis P. Newell , Harkins Cunningham, Martin I. Twersky [Argued], Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for Kitchen Pride Mushrooms, Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, Joel I. Fishbein , Rosen, Moss, Snyder & Bleefeld, Elkins Park, PA, Jeffrey A. Krawitz , Silverman, Bernheim & Vogel, Martin I. Twersky [Argued], Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for Mario Cutone Mushroom Co., Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, for Masha & Toto, Inc., TA M & T Mushrooms, Defendants.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, Amy R. Richter , Portland, OR, Martin I. Twersky [Argued], Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for Mushroom Alliance, Inc., Defendant.

William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, for W & P Mushrooms, Inc., Defendant.

Donna M. Albani , Glen Mills, PA, William A. DeStefano [Argued], Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas K. Schindler , Reger Rizzo & Darnall, West Chester, PA, Martin I. Twersky [Argued], Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, for M.D. Basciani & Sons, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Donald M. Barnes , Salvatore A. Romano , Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Eastern Mushroom Marketing Coop., Defendant-Appellant.

James A. Backstrom, Jr. , Philadelphia, PA, Christopher E. Ondeck , Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.

Before: BARRY, HARDIMAN and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 allows certain agricultural producers to form cooperatives without incurring antitrust liability. This appeal presents the novel question of whether a prejudgment order denying an agricultural cooperative the protections of the Capper-Volstead Act is immediately appealable under the collateral order doctrine. We hold it is not.

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