Home Depot U.S.A., Inc v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 8 HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC, Case No. 16-cv-04865-BLF
9 Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’
10 v. MOTION TO CERTIFY QUESTION
FOR INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL
11 E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY; KRONOS WORLDWIDE, [Re: ECF 150] 12 INC.; AND MILLENNIUM INORGANIC CHEMICALS, INC., n/k/a CRISTAL USA, 13 INC., 14 Defendants.
15 16 Plaintiff Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. (“Home Depot”) claims that Defendants E.I. du Pont de 17 Nemours and Co. (“DuPont”), Cristal USA, Inc. (“Cristal”), Huntsman International, LLC 18 (“Huntsman”), and Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (“Kronos”) participated in a conspiracy to fix the 19 price of titanium dioxide. This is one of several antitrust actions filed throughout the country 20 based on the alleged price-fixing conspiracy. All of the actions share substantially the same 21 record. 22 After the Third Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the defendants in a published 23 opinion, Valspar Corp. v.…