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  • July 08, 2026

    Baxter Beats Stable Value Fund 401(k) Plan Suit, For Good

    Baxter International permanently defeated a proposed class action claiming the relatively low returns of the medical products company's employee retirement plan were evidence of mismanagement, after an Illinois federal judge ruled Tuesday the allegations only show the stable value fund in the plan "may not have been best in class — nothing more."

  • July 08, 2026

    Navistar Expert Says GLS Missteps, Not Delays, Drove Losses

    Navistar's economic damages expert testified in Michigan federal court Wednesday that it was a Warren truck buyer's bad business decisions that led to the company losing millions, not the late delivery of 1,100 tractor-trailer vehicles that Navistar was supposed to deliver in June 2022.

  • July 08, 2026

    Snack Cos. Say DOJ Deal Demands Price-Fix Verdict Revisit

    Kraft, Kellogg, Nestle and General Mills want an Illinois federal judge to schedule a status conference "imminently" in their long-running antitrust suit to ask Cal-Maine Foods Inc. about a deal it recently reached with the government over claims it inflated the price of eggs and how it affects their $53 million jury verdict.

  • July 08, 2026

    Butterball, 2 More Head For Ill. Turkey Price-Fix Trials

    An Illinois federal judge handling consolidated turkey price-fixing litigation has teed up two trials against Butterball and two other major producers as he works through a pile of summary judgment challenges from defendants looking to avoid jury trials.

  • July 08, 2026

    Ill. Feds Fight Discovery, But Not Fees, In ICE Protest Case

    The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago has agreed that a group of anti-ICE protesters whose criminal case was dismissed when prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that indicted them came to light is entitled to recover attorney fees, but argued Tuesday that their bid to conduct discovery into any bad faith by the government amounted to a "fishing expedition."

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