Attorney Rachel Erin Schwartz's Legal Cases

Antitrust and trade law

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc., et al. v. United Egg Producers, et al

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OUTCOME:

Rachel represents Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc., and local grocery stores in an antitrust lawsuit against twenty egg producers and egg industry trade groups for artificial inflation of egg prices. ... The lawsuit alleges that defendants engaged in a conspiracy designed to increase the price for eggs in violation of the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act. This litigation is currently pending in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. In March 2012, Rachel successfully argued against the eleven motions to dismiss filed by defendants. Discovery in this litigation is currently underway and trial is anticipated in 2014.

Litigation

Seaboard Corporation v. Marsh Inc. et al.

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OUTCOME:

Rachel currently represents Seaboard Corporation in litigation filed in the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas involving anticompetitive bid-rigging conduct between Seaboard's insurance broker an ... d insurance companies. In 2010, Rachel successfully argued against the motion to dismiss filed by defendants, which was denied in its entirety. This lawsuit is currently on appeal before the Kansas Supreme Court.

Litigation

Seaboard Corporation et al. v. Grindrod Limited et al.

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OUTCOME:

Rachel successfully represented Seaboard Corporation, Seaboard Overseas Limited and Seaboard Overseas Trading and Shipping (Proprietary) Limited (collectively Seaboard) against Grindrod Limited, the la ... rgest logistics and shipping company in South Africa, and related entities. Plaintiffs alleged multiple causes of action, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, misappropriation of corporate opportunities, tortious interference and civil conspiracy, based upon actions taken by one of Seaboard's former officers and directors, who attempted to raid Seaboard of its key employees and force the transfer of Seaboard's highly profitable overseas trading and shipping business for a price far below fair market value. Plaintiffs intended to seek more than $100 million at trial in actual and punitive damages. Approximately six weeks before a three week jury trial was to begin in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Stueve Siegel Hanson settled this lawsuit. Discovery in this lawsuit spanned multiple continents, including two full weeks of depositions in South Africa.

Litigation

Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital LLC v. Midwest Division, Inc

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OUTCOME:

Rachel completed the prosecution of a groundbreaking Sherman Act Section 1 antitrust lawsuit on behalf of Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital, a physician-owned acute care hospital in Kansas. Heartla ... nd claimed that the dominant hospital systems in the Kansas City metropolitan area conspired among themselves and with the dominant managed care organizations in the region to prevent Heartland from obtaining in-network managed care contracts. Heartland also alleged that the defendants tortiously interfered with Heartland's ability to obtain these managed care contracts. Following three years of intense litigation, including nearly 100 depositions and the exchange of over 2 million pages of documents, Heartland settled with all defendants. This lawsuit settled in February 2008. The case was reported in Modern Healthcare and The National Law Journal as well as other leading health care and legal publications and was followed closely by national health care and antitrust experts. From 2004 to 2009, Rachel successfully prosecuted multiple software licensing, trademark and copyright cases on behalf of Overlap, Inc., a Kansas City software company, against multiple, national securities firms. These defendants provided access to the client's proprietary software to thousands of financial advisors across the country, in violation of the client's software license and intellectual property rights. In 2005, Rachel successfully appealed a decision by the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri granting summary judgment in an employment retaliation lawsuit. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the District Court and remanded the lawsuit back for further proceedings.

Rachel Erin Schwartz's Legal Cases (4)

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc., et al. v. United Egg Producers, et al

Seaboard Corporation v. Marsh Inc. et al.

Seaboard Corporation et al. v. Grindrod Limited et al.

Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital LLC v. Midwest Division, Inc