Egg Price-Fixing Settlements Signal DOJ’s Intensifying Focus on Commodity Benchmark Manipulation

By Christopher H. Casey, Katherine Speegle and Kirk Williams McLeod On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice and 17 states filed a civil antitrust complaint and simultaneously entered proposed consent judgments with three major egg producers alleging that the defendants conspired to manipulate Urner Barry’s daily egg price quotations by coordinating bids on the Egg … Continue reading “Egg Price-Fixing Settlements Signal DOJ’s Intensifying Focus on Commodity Benchmark Manipulation”