The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and Pacific Fertility Center, the leaders in the donor services purchasing market were accused of agreeing to a price fixing agreement to drive the payment for human egg donations down

The plaintiff alleges that the defendants, who allegedly control over 85 percent of the purchasing market for donor services, worked together to artificially depress the prices for donor eggs since 2000. Although there are no federal laws or regulations governing economic compensation for donor services, in 2000, ASRM's Ethics Committee disseminated a report, "Financial Incentives in Recruitment of AR Egg Providers." The report stated that sums of $5,000 or more required justification and that sums above $10,000 were inappropriate. The plaintiff claimed that the rates were linked to the market rates for sperm donation and then were adjusted slightly upward to account for the additional inconveniences of egg donation. She claims that those rates have been adhered to over the last decade. She seeks a declaration that the maximum price rules are unlawful and null and void

The plaintiff seeks to represent a class of all who, at any time within the last four years, supplied their own eggs for assisted fertility and reproductive procedures to any of the defendants.