( October 20, 2025, 23:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Containerboard companies Cascades, Georgia Pacific, Pratt Industries and others moved to dismiss US price-fixing claims accusing them of conspiring to fix the prices of containerboard and linerboard. The plaintiff's allegations lack direct evidence of a conspiracy, and the plaintiff "tries to infer that it exists based on a handful of price-increase announcements in different amounts that different Defendants made at different time and capacity reductions that some, but not all (or even most), Defendants announced during this period," the defendants said in their filing in the Northern District of Illinois. Further, the plaintiffs have not shown a plausible inference of collusion, nor proofs that would discount "obvious non-conspiratorial explanations" for the pricing decisions made by each defendant, the filing said.See attached file....
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