June 11, 2018
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has rejected a group of farmers' request to combine two lawsuits accusing major chicken companies of operating a cartel to suppress the price of broiler chickens in Oklahoma federal court, saying centralization is unnecessary because a "minimal number of actions are involved."
February 22, 2018
A group of North Carolina chicken growers slapped Koch Foods and other major chicken companies with a putative class action Wednesday, alleging the companies reached a "no-poaching" agreement and shared data to suppress farmers' compensation.