Home Depot U.S.A., Inc v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC, Case No. 16-cv-04865-BLF
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’
v. MOTION TO CERTIFY QUESTION
FOR INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL
E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY; KRONOS WORLDWIDE, [Re: ECF 150] INC.; AND MILLENNIUM INORGANIC CHEMICALS, INC., n/k/a CRISTAL USA, INC., Defendants.
15 Plaintiff Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. (“Home Depot”) claims that Defendants E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (“DuPont”), Cristal USA, Inc. (“Cristal”), Huntsman International, LLC (“Huntsman”), and Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (“Kronos”) participated in a conspiracy to fix the price of titanium dioxide. This is one of several antitrust actions filed throughout the country based on the alleged price-fixing conspiracy. All of the actions share substantially the same record. After the Third Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the defendants in a published opinion, Valspar Corp. v.…