Bumble Bee Parent Lion Capital Dragged Back Into Antitrust Case

Lion Capital, owner of bankrupt Bumble Bee Foods LLC, was pulled back into antitrust litigation over an alleged price-fixing scheme by top U.S. canned tuna makers when a federal judge in San Diego reversed an earlier ruling letting the British private equity firm out of the case.

Chief Judge Dana M. Sabraw ruled Monday for the retailers challenging a decision by Judge Janis L. Sammartino, who previously presided over the long-running multidistrict lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Sammartino recused herself in August.

Sabraw granted the retailers’ motion for reconsideration, citing plausible claims that ...