{"id":276,"date":"2026-07-07T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=276"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:28:10","slug":"egg-price-fixing-settlements-signal-dojs-intensifying-focus-commodity-benchmark-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/07\/07\/egg-price-fixing-settlements-signal-dojs-intensifying-focus-commodity-benchmark-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg Price-Fixing Settlements Signal DOJ&#8217;s Intensifying Focus on Commodity Benchmark Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherhcasey.html\">Christopher H. Casey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/katherinespeegle.html\">Katherine Speegle<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/kirkwilliamsmcleod.html\">Kirk Williams McLeod<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/egg_price_fixing_settlements_signal_dojs_intensifying_focus_commodity_benchmark_0726.html\">Alert <\/a><\/em>on the Duane Morris LLP website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christopher H. Casey,\u00a0Katherine Speegle and\u00a0Kirk 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\u2019s daily egg price quotations by coordinating bids on the Egg &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2026\/07\/07\/egg-price-fixing-settlements-signal-dojs-intensifying-focus-commodity-benchmark-manipulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egg Price-Fixing Settlements Signal DOJ&#8217;s Intensifying Focus on Commodity Benchmark Manipulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,11,14,120,22,119,110],"ppma_author":[37,101],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anticompetition","tag-antitrust","tag-christopher-casey","tag-commodity-benchmark-manipulation","tag-doj","tag-eggs","tag-katie-speegle"],"authors":[{"term_id":37,"user_id":341,"is_guest":0,"slug":"chcasey","display_name":"Christopher H. 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