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Southern Glazer's pushes back against US FTC discovery plan

( April 24, 2025, 01:11 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission told a California federal judge in a joint report that it "expects to focus its discovery" in its case against Southern Glazer's "primarily on five representative exemplar states detailed in the Complaint (Arizona, California, Illinois, Texas, and Washington)" that typify the company's "discriminatory pricing practices under different state alcohol regulations."  The agency also said it plans to seek "significantly more streamlined discovery in the other open and franchise states." Meanwhile, Southern argued in the same joint report that the FTC is seeking "broad nationwide discovery" into the company's purchasing and pricing in 29 states. "At a minimum — and particularly because FTC commissioners have stated that this case is a poor use of agency resources — any discovery beyond the states identified in the complaint (which should not be permitted at all) should be phased," Southern argued. See attached report. ...

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