The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Starkist challenging the class certification in a civil lawsuit brought against it in response to its involvement in a price-fixing arrangement with Bumble Bee Foods and Chicken of the Sea from 2011 to 2013.
In August, Starkist filed a petition at the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to strike down a decision made by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., which ruled in a 9-2 decision in April 2022 to uphold the class certification completed in 2019 by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Judge Janis L. Sammartino…