In Re Shell Eggs Antitrust Litigation

Berger Montague, a leading national plaintiffs’ law firm, represents several Denny’s franchises, which filed proposed class action cases on behalf of direct purchasers of shell eggs. The lawsuits allege a multi-year conspiracy among the largest egg producers that caused egg prices to skyrocket. Specifically, the complaints detail how the egg producers manipulated a widely used pricing benchmark, the Urner Barry Egg Index, to inflate the market-wide price of shell eggs. The complaints also allege that the egg producers used avian flu infections as a pretext to limit egg production, further bolstering inflated egg prices. Plaintiffs’ economic analyses demonstrate that the rapidly rising egg prices seen during the conspiracy cannot be explained by competitive market forces like supply, demand, and costs and instead reflect coordinated manipulation of price formation and industry output.

The defendants are Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.; Daybreak Foods, Inc.; Hillandale Farms of PA, Inc.; Hillandale-Gettysburg, L.P.; Rose Acre Farms, Inc.; Opal Foods, LLC; Versova Holdings LLP; Urner Barry Publications, Inc. d/b/a Expana; Egg Clearinghouse, Inc.; and United Egg Producers d/b/a Egg Farmers of America.

Berger Montague is one of the nation’s preeminent law firms focusing on complex civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts in federal and state courts throughout the United States. With more than $2.4 billion in 2025 post-trial judgments alone, the Firm is a leader in the fields of complex litigation, antitrust, consumer protection, defective products, environmental law, employment law, securities, and whistleblower cases, among many other practice areas. For over 55 years, Berger Montague has played leading roles in precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $50 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Chicago; Malvern, PA; Minneapolis; San Diego; San Francisco; Toronto, Canada; Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, DE.