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In re Funeral Consumers Antitrust Litigation
In In re Funeral Consumers Antitrust Litigation (4:05-cv-03394), Labaton Sucharow is working with Constantine Cannon, Lead Counsel, in a class action case on behalf of Consumer Plaintiffs who allege that the three largest funeral home chains in the U.S. - Service Corporation International, Alderwoods Group, Inc., and Stewart Enterprises, Inc. - and the dominant manufacturer of caskets, Batesville Casket Company, have boycotted independent casket discounters and fixed the prices of caskets at artificially high levels in violation of state and federal antitrust laws. Plaintiffs' motion for class certification is pending before the Court.
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