In re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation

*1053 ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’ REMAINING MOTIONS TO DISMISS

Presently before the Court are:

BACKGROUND

In 2015, dozen's of actions were instituted in federal district courts across the nation seeking various forms of relief relying on the same factual predicate: an alleged antitrust conspiracy, in violation of the Sherman Act and state antitrust law, regarding packaged seafood products. See generally Transfer Order (ECF No. 1). On December 9, 2015 the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict. Litigation centralized pretrial proceedings (“In re Packaged Seafoods”) to this Court in the Southern District of California. (Id. at 1-2 (“The vast majority of the related actions are already pending in this district, most before Judge Janis .L. Sammartino, who has the related cases before her.”).)

*1056 Several weeks later, the United States Government intervened in the action, noting that “[a] federal grand jury empanelled in the Northern District of California is investigating potential violations of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 , in the packaged seafood industry.” (U.S. Notice of Mot. to Intervene 1, ECF No. 34.) The Court subsequently held…