7th Circuit Rejects Purchasers’ Opposition To $75M Chicken Antitrust Settlement

( August 14, 2025, 8:34 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a second ruling this year on a settlement in an antitrust case accusing broiler sellers of fixing the prices for chicken affirmed the trial court’s final approval of the more than $75 million agreement between direct-purchaser plaintiffs (DPPs) and House of Raeford Farms Inc. and Koch Foods Inc., JCG Foods of Alabama LLC, JCG Foods of Georgia LLC and Koch Meat Co. Inc. (together, Koch)....