Since an industry research organization may have unintentionally been a conduit for communicating information among conspirators in a price-fixing scheme among major manufacturers of drywall, plaintiffs in the related multidistrict litigation can collect some of the organization’s confidential information, a federal judge has ruled.

Both the plaintiffs and Thompson Research Group, which publishes confidential reports on the construction materials industry and is called TRG for short, proved their points, U.S. District Senior Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found.

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