DOJ Serves Up a Statement of Interest with a Side of Fries

Last Friday, the DOJ filed a Statement of Interest in In Re Frozen Potato Products Antitrust Litigation, a multidistrict price fixing litigation filed in the Northern District of Illinois against four producers of frozen potato products that used PotatoTrack, a third-party data analytics platform. With the food supply chain top of mind for the Trump administration, this Statement of Interest follows a series of similar statements that the DOJ has put forth in other civil litigation cases in the... By: Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP