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In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation

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Case Number:

1:16-cv-08637

Court:

Illinois Northern

Nature of Suit:

791(Labor: E.R.I.S.A.)

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Honorable Thomas M. Durkin

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  1. July 24, 2023

    Burford Continues Push For Sysco Sub In Chicken Price Suit

    Federal antitrust claims are "freely assignable," food giant Sysco and its former financial backer, Burford Capital, told an Illinois court Friday as they defended Burford's requested substitution into a chicken price-fixing case.

  2. July 19, 2023

    Consumers' $2.9M Deal With Harrison Poultry Gets Initial OK

    An Illinois federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a $2.9 million settlement between consumer plaintiffs and Harrison Poultry Inc. in a consolidated antitrust case over claims that broiler chicken producers engaged in unlawful price-fixing.

  3. July 13, 2023

    Chicken Cos. Object To Sysco-Burford Swap In Price-Fix Suits

    The nation's largest chicken producers are crying foul over food distributor Sysco's attempt to let litigation funder Burford Capital take over a sprawling series of poultry price-fixing lawsuits, saying the move smacks of "invalid champerty" — the ancient legal doctrine that bars the purchase of civil claims by "strangers."

  4. July 10, 2023

    Burford Affiliate Fights To Sub For Sysco In Price-Fixing Suits

    An affiliate of litigation funding giant Burford Capital pressed a Minnesota federal judge to let it replace Sysco as a plaintiff in sprawling price-fixing lawsuits against pork and beef producers following the resolution of Sysco and Burford's separate fight over who controlled Sysco's litigation future.

  5. July 03, 2023

    Chicken Price-Fixing Case Pared Down As Trial Approaches

    An Illinois federal judge has shaved seven defendants and two theories of liability from a massive consolidated antitrust case that is otherwise headed to trial in September over claims that broiler chicken producers including Tyson Foods engaged in an unlawful price-fixing scheme.

  6. June 29, 2023

    Harrison Poultry Inks $2.8M Deal In Price-Fixing Suit

    Commercial and institutional indirect purchaser plaintiffs in a yearslong price-fixing suit against multiple chicken suppliers have asked an Illinois federal judge for preliminary approval of their $2.8 million settlement with Harrison Poultry Inc., saying the company has agreed to the deal.

  7. June 28, 2023

    Burford, Sysco Agree To Drop Litigation Funding Suits

    Sysco Corp. and litigation funder Burford Capital have both agreed to voluntarily dismiss their respective suits against each other in a heated dispute in which Sysco claimed Burford blocked the food distributor from settling price-fixing claims against chicken suppliers, according to a pair of notices filed on Wednesday.

  8. June 26, 2023

    7th Circ. Rejects Challenge To Chicken Deal Sharing Language

    A Seventh Circuit panel refused to upend a district court order preserving poultry producers' judgment sharing agreement that may disadvantage chicken buyers in settlement talks with producers accused of price-fixing.

  9. June 12, 2023

    Chicken Buyers Get OK For $8M Simmons Price-Fixing Deal

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday gave his preliminary signoff for a roughly $8 million deal between Simmons Foods and direct purchasers accusing major chicken suppliers of price-fixing, bringing the total recovery for the group to nearly $189 million.

  10. April 14, 2023

    Sysco Barred From Dragging Burford Into Broiler Chicken Suit

    A Chicago federal judge overseeing antitrust claims against some of American's largest suppliers of chicken meat has declined to hear a separate lawsuit in which Sysco Corp. says the litigation funder Burford Capital Ltd. is illegally blocking it from settling its price-fixing allegations.