( May 12, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Mountaire Farms, Peco Foods, and poultry processing companies moved to dismiss a US price-fixing complaint, saying plaintiffs admittedly recycle the same challenge to the same unlawful conduct during the same time period and the same conspirators that they pursued, investigated, and resolved years ago in a related case. “Indeed, plaintiffs copied virtually all their allegations from Growers I and even admit that the cases differ ‘only by the defendants sued’: namely, that Growers I defendants are now ‘co-conspirators,’ and Growers I co-conspirators are now ‘defendants,’” they said.See attached files....
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