Jury orders egg suppliers to pay $17.7 million in damages for price gouging in 2000s
by Isabella Volmert
Dec 01, 2023
3 minutes
A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages — an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law — to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the egg supply in the U.S.
The jury ruled last week that the egg producers used various means to limit the domestic supply of eggs to increase the price of products during the 2000s. The time frame of
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