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 Clearinghouse Inc. platform between June 2022 and March 2025. The case marks a significant enforcement action that illustrates how federal enforcers are approaching benchmark manipulation in concentrated commodity markets.
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