( September 3, 2025, 12:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Deere & Company opposed AGCO Corporation’s bid for reconsideration and stay of a US court’s order compelling its production of contested documents supplied to the US Federal Trade Commission related to its antitrust claims against Deere. The commission’s misstatement that Hargrove & Associates filed a motion to quash a civil investigative demand in federal court, when in truth they did so with the FTC itself, is not material, the company said. "In the context of this Court’s Order, it is of no consequence which recipient of a CID successfully moved to quash the FTC’s CID or how they sought such relief… The fact remains that Hargrove sought and received relief from the FTC’s CID. This option was available to AGCO, but AGCO did not pursue it," Deere said in its opposition brief filed to the Northern District of Illinois. See attached document....
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