Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

1999

Settlement Amount

None

Court

Circuit Court of Hardy County, WV

Docket Number

99-C-10

Lead State

WV

Participating States

WV

Defendant(s)

Wampler Foods, Inc.; WLR Foods, Inc.

Case Description

The State brought an action claiming Wampler was using its monopsonistic power to control the prices paid to farmers raising chickens for it. Farmers had no other buyer for the chickens they raised other than Wampler. The Court dismissed the action finding that Wampler had not engaged in any exclusionary conduct.