FEDERAL TRADE COM'N v. SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG

1:22CV828.

711 F.Supp.3d 545 (2024)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, State of California, State of Colorado, State of Illinois, State of Indiana, State of Iowa, State of Minnesota, State of Nebraska, State of Oregon, State of Tennessee, State of Texas, State of Washington, and State of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs, v. SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG, Syngenta Corporation, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, and Corteva, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

Signed January 12, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allyson M. Maltas, Washington, DC, Edward Takashima, Elizabeth Gillen, Eric Brooks, Geoffrey Green, Joseph Raymond Baker, Karna Adam, Lauren Patterson, Mark J. Woodward, Michael J. Turner, Philip Kehl, Rachel Frank, Robert Y. Chen, Wesley Carson, James Harris Weingarten, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission.

Nicole Gordon, Brian Wang, Office of the Attorney General of California, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff State of California.

Carla J. Baumel, Conor J. May, Jan Michael Zavislan, Colorado Department of Law, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff State of Colorado.

Paul Harper, Daniel Ricardo Betancourt, Elizabeth Scott, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff State of Illinois.

Matthew Alan Michaloski, Christi Foust, Jesse Josef Moore, I, Scott Leroy Barnhart, Office of the Indiana Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff State of Indiana.

Noah Goerlitz, Iowa Attorney General, Des Moines, IA, William R. Pearson, Iowa Department of Justice, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Iowa.

Elizabeth R. Odette, Minnesota Attorney General's Office, St. Paul, MN, Katherine Moerke, St. Paul, MN, for Plaintiff State of Minnesota.

Colin P. Snider, Justin Clifford McCully, Nebraska Attorney General's Office, Lincoln, NE, Joseph Conrad, Nebraska Department of Justice, Lincoln, NE, for Plaintiff State of Nebraska.

Timothy Daly Smith, Oregon Department of Justice, Portland, OR, for Plaintiff State of Oregon.

Jonathan Lucas Woodward, Austin, TX, Margaret Sharp, Texas Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff State of Texas.

Laura McFarlane, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff State of Wisconsin.

Hamilton Millwee, Jamison Tate Ball, Tennessee Attorney General's Office, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff State of Tennessee.

Luminita Nodit, State of Washington Attorney General's Office, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiff State of Washington.

Charles Duggan, James McClammy, Chui-Lai Cheung, Daniel James Thomson, David Brendan Toscano, Paul Mishkin, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY, Patrick Michael Kane, Sean Placey, Fox Rothschild LLP, Greensboro, NC, for Defendants Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Syngenta Corporation, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC

Mark E. Anderson, Armina Manning, MeGuirewoods LLP, Raleigh, NC, Benjamin Bauer, Christine Varney, David Marriott, Margaret Thorner Segall, Maximilian Auerbach, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Corteva, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

In this action, the Federal Trade Commission and a dozen states allege that two major manufacturers of crop-protection products have employed anticompetitive loyalty discount programs. These programs allegedly exclude generic competition from the market...

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