January 29, 2025
Turkey producers fighting consolidated price-fixing claims in Illinois urged a federal judge Tuesday to kick a Burford Capital Investment unit's claims out of the case on summary judgment, arguing the action exists solely because of the litigation funder's drive to profit from a lawsuit.
January 23, 2025
An Illinois federal court certified two classes of buyers in a case accusing the country's largest turkey processors of working together to reduce supply and increase prices after refusing to exclude analysis from the buyers' experts.
October 09, 2024
Meat buyers pursuing an antitrust class action against the biggest names in the turkey industry are pointing to the U.S. Department of Justice's recent filing in a separate pork purchasers suit to support their class certification motion.
August 19, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has refused to dismiss Aramark's individual antitrust lawsuit alleging that turkey producers exchanged competitively sensitive information, rejecting arguments that the claims were untimely because the statute of limitations was tolled by the filing of a similar class action in 2019.
April 29, 2024
Some of the country's largest turkey producers have asked an Illinois federal court for permission to immediately appeal a March ruling that allows a Burford Capital investment unit to pursue price-fixing allegations against them, arguing the Seventh Circuit should weigh in on whether the investor is permitted to bring such a claim.
March 29, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has refused to block a Burford Capital investment unit from pursuing price-fixing allegations in a consolidated case against major turkey producers, saying federal law largely no longer recognizes the "antiquated" doctrine the producers cited to invalidate the claim.
March 04, 2024
Turkey giants like Cargill, Perdue and Tyson trying to evade price-fixing allegations traded blows Friday in Illinois federal court with a Burford Capital affiliate over the meaning of a federal magistrate judge's ruling in separate litigation refusing to let a different Burford affiliate swap in as a plaintiff.
January 29, 2024
Butterball, Hormel, Perdue and other poultry producers fighting price-fixing claims in Illinois have argued the litigation's direct purchasers shouldn't receive class treatment because too many variables impact turkey prices for common evidence to support their claims.
November 21, 2022
An Illinois federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss multidistrict litigation over alleged turkey price-fixing, saying that when the allegations are considered as a whole, both direct and indirect poultry buyers have done enough at this stage to give rise to an inference of a conspiracy.
October 21, 2022
An Illinois federal judge told firms involved in an evidentiary hearing that's part of multidistrict litigation over alleged turkey price-fixing that he explicitly wants junior attorneys to participate, converting it from a telephone hearing as a result.