Jury orders egg suppliers to pay $17.7 million in damages for price gouging in 2000s

2-12-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 30

A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages - an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law - to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the egg supply in the U.S.

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