With little more than a week to go before trial, a defendant in the antitrust litigation that had been lodged against numerous mushroom growers is calling for the judge to recuse.

M.D. Basciani & Sons, which is one of several mushroom growers that had been sued for alleged price-fixing, filed a motion Wednesday saying U.S. District Senior Judge Berle M. Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania needs to step down from the case after he had alleged ex parte communications with plaintiffs counsel, Bruce Gerstein of Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, and Berger Montague attorney H. Laddie Montague, who is lead counsel for a group of defendants.

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