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Comment: Chicken producer settlements in sprawling US price-fixing case shrink trial length, lower stakes for Sanderson standoff

By Chris May ( October 20, 2023, 15:39 GMT | Comment) -- Chicken producers’ quarter-billion dollars in pending deals to settle sprawling US price-fixing allegations have trimmed the schedule, and the stakes, of a single-defendant trial more than seven years in the making. Sanderson Farms, the only remaining defendant in the first of several trials, faces substantially reduced damages thanks to a judgment-sharing agreement between producers early in the case.Chicken producers’ pending deals — worth more than a quarter-billion dollars — to settle sprawling US price-fixing allegations have trimmed the schedule, and the stakes, of a single-defendant trial that's been over seven years in the making....

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