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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Tunheim denies the meat packing companies' motion to dismiss multidistrict antitrust litigation alleging anticompetitive conduct in the pork packing industry to unlawfully stabilize the price of pork sold to grocery companies and others. The grocery companies sufficiently alleged a conspiracy to restrict competition in the industry which would impact the prices paid for pork for use in multi-ingredient pork products and pork by-products. The grocery companies' claims are timely even though the action was filed 10 years after the conspiracy allegedly began. The grocery companies alleged specific acts committed by the meat companies for the purpose of fraudulently concealing a conspiracy such that the statute of limitations is tolled. The grocery companies also adequately alleged that they were injured by the meat companies' violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act.