September 17, 2018
A major cooperative food wholesaler will have to litigate its price-fixing allegations against Tyson, Perdue and several other broiler chicken producers alongside the roughly 20 other lawsuits currently pending against the companies in Illinois after a federal judge agreed to allow the defendants to fly the Kansas coop.
July 18, 2018
Koch Foods Inc., Tyson Foods Inc. and Mountaire Farms dodged chicken buyers' bid to see at least 50,000 email attachments on top of their discovery production in a proposed class action against major producers after an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday there's no reason to "rewrite" the deal they negotiated nearly two years ago.
July 05, 2018
Koch Foods Inc. asked an Illinois federal court on Thursday to deny a bid by chicken buyers to compel production of as many as 50,000 email attachments in antitrust litigation against poultry producers, arguing that providing the documents would impose an undue burden on the company.
January 31, 2018
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday refused to rethink his decision keeping Peco Foods tied to a major antitrust lawsuit brought by three classes of consumers alleging it and other poultry producers conspired to fix prices of broiler chickens, though the judge acknowledged the allegations "are thin."
November 21, 2017
The nation's largest poultry producers must face most claims in a major antitrust lawsuit brought by three classes of consumers alleging the companies conspired to fix prices of broiler chickens, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.
November 03, 2017
Tyson Foods Inc. on Friday urged an Illinois federal judge to toss an antitrust lawsuit over broiler chickens originally brought in Florida, describing the purported chicken price-fixing conspiracy alleged by Chicken Kitchen USA LLC as "bare bones" and without a legal claim.
September 29, 2017
An Illinois magistrate judge on Thursday ordered poultry producers to turn over certain documents related to an investigation by the Florida attorney general’s office in a lawsuit over alleged antitrust and price-index-fixing concerns, but stopped short of requiring expanded disclosure of information and communications with the agency.
August 07, 2017
Direct purchasers in a proposed class action accusing poultry producers of colluding to fix the prices for broiler chickens urged an Illinois federal judge on Friday to sign off on a $2.25 million deal they struck with Fieldale Farms Corp.
April 24, 2017
An Illinois federal magistrate judge on Friday refused a putative class of consumers' document preservation subpoenas in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc. and other poultry producers colluded to increase the price of chickens by limiting their production and exchanging pricing details through a third party.
February 06, 2017
Tyson Foods Inc. told shareholders on Monday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has hit it with a subpoena over allegations raised in class action lawsuits that the company conspired with other producers of broiler chickens to limit production and goose their profits.