IN RE WHOLESALE GROCERY PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIG.

No. 15-1786.

850 F.3d 344 (2017)

IN RE: WHOLESALE GROCERY PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Millennium Operations, Inc.; JFM Market, Inc.; MJF Market, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees v. SuperValu, Inc.; C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellants was Erik T. Koons , of Washington, DC. The following attorneys also appeared on the appellant brief; Todd Alan Wind , of Minneapolis, MN., Karl Craig Wildfang , of Minneapolis, MN., Stephen Paul Safranski , of Minneapolis, MN., Charles A. Loughlin , of Washington, DC., Christopher J. MacAvoy , of Washington, DC., Martin Richard Lueck , of Minneapolis, MN., Jeffrey Sullivan Gleason , of Minneapolis, MN., Ochen D. Kaylan , of Minneapolis, MN., Nicole M. Moen , of Minneapolis, MN.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellees JFM Market, Inc. and MJF Market, Inc. and appeared on the brief was Edward T. Dangel, III , of Boston, MA.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee Millennium Operations, Inc. was Richard Bruce Drubel , of Hanover, NH. The following attorneys also appeared on the appellee brief of Millennium Operations, Inc.; W. Joseph Bruckner , of Minneapolis, MN., Dan Kotchen , of Washington, DC., Elizabeth R. Odette , of Minneapolis, MN., Kimberly H. Schultz , of Hanover, NH., Matthew J. Henken , of Hanover, NH., Daniel Low , of Washington, DC.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, COLLOTON and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


A number of retail grocers sued two large full-line wholesale grocers, alleging the wholesalers' contract to exchange retailer supply agreements constituted market allocation in violation of the Sherman Act, see 15 U.S.C. § 1. The retailers formed two putative classes, the Midwest Class and the New...

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