Litigation & Arbitration
Jul. 28, 2023
‘Weak’ consumer lawsuit against Kroger/Albertsons merger, judge says
“The best outcome you can hope from me is that [the complaint] is unripe,” U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said.
A federal judge in San Francisco blasted plaintiffs’ attorney Joseph M. Alioto during a Thursday hearing for what he said was a “weak” consumer antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the proposed merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons Companies Inc.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, an appointee of President Barack Obama, spent much of the hearing chastising Alioto for what he said was the failure to cite economic experts in the complaint, ...
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