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In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation
Case Number:
1:16-cv-08637
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Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
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Firms
- Ahern & Associates
- Almeida Law Group
- Alston & Bird
- Amundsen Davis
- ArentFox Schiff
- Armstrong Teasdale
- Axinn Veltrop
- Axler Goldich
- Bailey Brauer
- Baker Donelson
- Bancroft PLLC
- Barack Ferrazzano
- Baron Harris
- Barrett Johnston
- Benesch
- Bernstein Liebhard
- Bilzin Sumberg
- Block Firm
- BoiesBattin
- Boies Schiller
- Butler Reichline
- Cadwalader Wickersham
- Carlton Fields
- Carpenter Lipps
- Cera LLP
- Clark Hill
- Clement & Murphy
- Coffman Law Firm
- Cohen Milstein
- Conner & Winters
- Cooley LLP
- Cotchett Pitre
- Cotsirilos Tighe
- Covington & Burling
- Criden & Love
- Croke Fairchild
- Dentons
- DiCello Levitt
- Dykema Gossett
- Edelson Lechtzin
- Eimer Stahl
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Falkenberg Ives
- FeganScott
- Fine Kaplan
- Fox Swibel
- Frankfurt Kurnit
- Freed Kanner
- Goldman Scarlato
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Greenberg Traurig
- Gustafson Gluek
- Hagens Berman
- Hammond Law
- Hammond Law PC
- Harper Little
- Hart McLaughlin
- Heins Mills
- Hellmuth & Johnson
- Hinkle Shanor
- Hogan Lovells
- Hunton Andrews
- Jackson Lewis PC
- Jenner & Block
- Jones Day
- Jordan Price
- Joseph D. Carney & Associates
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Kaplan Fox
- Karon LLC
- Kasowitz Benson
- Katten Muchin
- Kellogg Hansen
- Kenny Nachwalter
- Kirby McInerney
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Kohn Swift
- Kopecky Schumacher
- Kutak Rock
- Law Group of Northwest Arkansas
- Law Office of Thomas J. Nolan
- Law Offices of Michael M. Mulder
- L&G Law Group
- Lipe Lyons
- Lite DePalma
- Littler Mendelson
- Lockridge Grindal
- Lynch Thompson
- Manning Gross
- Marcus & Shapira
- Marks & Klein
- Matt Singer Law
- Mayer Brown
- McGuireWoods
- Milberg Coleman
- Miller Canfield
- Miller Shakman
- MoloLamken
- Moore & Van Allen
- NastLaw
- Neal Gerber
- Novack & Macey
- Nussbaum Law Group
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Paul Hastings
- Paul Weiss
- Pearson Warshaw
- Polsinelli PC
- Preti Flaherty
- Proskauer Rose
- Quinn Emanuel
- Rachlis Duff
- Raines Feldman
- Reinhardt Wendorf
- Ridley McGreevy
- Riley Safer
- Salvatore Prescott
- Saveri & Saveri
- Seeger Weiss
- Sherman Atlas
- Sherrard Roe
- Shindler Anderson
- Shook Hardy
- Sidley Austin
- Simpson Thacher
- Skadden Arps
- Smith Gambrell
- Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles
- Spector Roseman
- Sperling & Slater
- Stearns Weaver
- Steven Williams Law
- Steyer Lowenthal
- Stinson LLP
- Stranch Jennings
- Susman Godfrey
- Swanson Martin
- Taus Cebulash
- TottisLaw
- Vaughan & Murphy
- Vedder Price
- Venable LLP
- Vinson & Elkins
- Wallace Miller
- Weil Gotshal
- Wexler Boley
- Wheeler Trigg
- White & Case
- Williams Barber
- Winston & Strawn
- Wolf Haldenstein
- Wollmuth Maher
- Zelle LLP
Companies
- Agri Stats Inc.
- Ahold Delhaize
- Albertsons Cos. Inc.
- Aldi GmbH & Co. KG
- Aramark
- Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Bi-Lo
- BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.
- Bloomin' Brands Inc.
- Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
- Boston Market Corp.
- Brinker International Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Inc.
- Brookshire Brothers Ltd.
- Brookshire Grocery
- Buffalo Wild Wings Inc.
- Caesars Entertainment Inc.
- Campbell Soup Co.
- Captain D's LLC
- Carl Buddig & Co.
- Case Farms LLC
- Checkers Drive In Restaurants Inc.
- Chick-fil-A Inc.
- CKE Restaurants Inc.
- Compass Group PLC
- Conagra Brands Inc.
- Costco Wholesale Corp.
- Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.
- Darden Restaurants Inc.
- Domino's Pizza Inc.
- El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc.
- Fareway Stores Inc.
- Ferraro Foods Inc.
- Fieldale Farms Corp.
- FOCUS Brands Inc.
- Foster Farms
- George's Inc.
- Giant Eagle Inc.
- Gordon Food Service Inc.
- Hooters LLC
- House of Raeford Farms Inc.
- Hy-Vee
- Keystone Foods LLC
- Koch Foods
- Maximum Quality Foods
- McDonald's Corp.
- McLane Co. Inc.
- Nestle SA
- Panda Restaurant Group Inc.
- Peco Foods Inc.
- Perdue Farms Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company Inc.
- Piggly Wiggly LLC
- Pilgrim's Pride Corp.
- Pinnacle Foods Inc.
- Publix Super Markets Inc.
- Rabobank
- Sam's Club
- Sanderson Farms Inc.
- Save Mart Supermarkets
- Schnuck Markets Inc.
- Services Group of America
- Shamrock Foods Co.
- Sherwood Food Distributors LLC
- Simmons Foods Inc.
- Sodexo SA
- Supervalu Inc.
- Sysco Corp.
- Target Corp.
- The Cheesecake Factory Inc.
- The Fresh Market Inc.
- The Golub Corp.
- The Kroger Co.
- Tyson Foods Inc.
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corp.
- Walmart Inc.
- Wawa Inc.
- Whatabrands LLC
- Whataburger Restaurants LLC
- White Castle Management Co.
- Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
- Zaxby's Holdings LLC
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March 22, 2019
Perdue Coached Witness In Poultry Price-Fix Suit, Buyers Say
Perdue Farms should be sanctioned after its attorney interrupted the deposition of the poultry company's director of live production some 200 times and conferred with him during breaks, chicken buyers have told an Illinois federal court.
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March 01, 2019
Eli Lilly Subsidiary Must Face Chicken Price-Fixing Row
An Eli Lilly & Co. subsidiary can't dodge litigation brought by chicken meat purchasers that have accused producers of a vast price-fixing conspiracy conducted in part with the information provided by the subsidiary, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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February 13, 2019
Poultry Co. To Cough Up $1.4M, Cooperate In Price-Fix Case
Georgia-based Fieldale Farms Corp. received early approval for a settlement Wednesday that would see it fork over $1.4 million and provide information to assist broiler chicken buyers as they pursue claims that manufacturers conspired for decades to drive up chicken prices.
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November 30, 2018
Distributor Fights Subpoena Bid In Poultry Price-Fixing Suit
Meat distributor Porky Products asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday not to force it to fulfill lengthy and expensive subpoenas from plaintiffs accusing more than a dozen poultry producers of colluding to keep prices high, saying it is too far down the supply chain and is a nonparty in the litigation.
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November 20, 2018
Producer's $2.3M Exit From Poultry Price-Fix Suit OK'd
Georgia-based Fieldale Farms has secured a $2.25 million exit from a class of food service distributors' suit surrounding an alleged decadelong industry-wide plot by poultry producers to ratchet up chicken prices, after an Illinois federal judge gave final approval to the settlement.
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October 30, 2018
Producer Exits Chicken Price-Fixing Suit With $2.2M Deal
A proposed class of direct purchasers asked an Illinois federal court on Monday to give the final seal of approval to a $2.2 million deal letting Fieldale Farms out of a suit accusing the company and more than a dozen other poultry producers of colluding to keep prices high.
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September 17, 2018
Chicken Price-Fixing Suit Gets Plucked From Kan.
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.
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July 18, 2018
Poultry Buyers Can't See Extra Email Docs In Price-Fixing Suit
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.
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July 05, 2018
Koch Foods Slams Chicken Buyers' Bid For 50K Docs
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.
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January 31, 2018
Peco Stuck With Broiler Chicken Price-Fixing Suit For Now
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."