Grabar Law Office is counsel for Redner’s Markets, Inc., a lead named plaintiff in consolidated antitrust litigation alleging a nationwide conspiracy to artificially inflate prices for frozen potato products, including french fries, hash browns, tater tots, and other frozen potato products.
On November 10, 2026, Law360 reported that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois rejected an attempt by defendant Circana Inc., a market data and benchmarking company, to pursue an immediate appeal of the Court’s earlier decision allowing substantial portions of the antitrust litigation to proceed.
According to Law360, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings determined that Circana’s proposed appellate challenge was not appropriate for interlocutory review because it involved fact-intensive questions rather than a purely legal issue. The Court also determined that resolving Circana’s proposed question would not remove the company from the litigation.
The ruling follows the Court’s September 2026 decision largely sustaining the plaintiffs’ antitrust allegations while dismissing certain state-law claims.
The consolidated litigation alleges that major frozen potato manufacturers, including Lamb Weston, McCain Foods, J.R. Simplot Co., and Cavendish Farms, engaged in anticompetitive conduct that artificially inflated prices in the frozen potato products market.
Grabar Law Office represents Redner’s Markets, Inc., the lead named plaintiff, in seeking to hold the defendants accountable for alleged violations of federal antitrust law. The litigation illustrates the firm’s continuing representation of commercial purchasers in complex antitrust and price-fixing cases.
The case is Redner’s Markets Inc. v. Lamb Weston Holdings Inc. et al., Case No. 1:24-cv-11801, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The article can be read here: Lauraann Wood, “Frozen Potato Benchmarker Can’t Appeal Dismissal Loss,” Law360, November 10, 2026. Frozen Potato Benchmarker Can’t Appeal Dismissal Loss – Law360
