Chick-fil-A Gets Judge to Change Mind on Expanding Cartel Case

Antitrust litigation over an alleged price-fixing scheme among top U.S. poultry processors will expand its focus from price-index manipulation and flock culling to include bid-rigging claims on behalf of restaurants, a federal judge in Chicago said, walking back an earlier ruling.

Judge Thomas M. Durkin granted a reconsideration bid by fast food chain Chick-fil-A, reversing his earlier decision to put the bid-rigging claims on hold indefinitely while the sprawling case moves forward in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Durkin, who bifurcated the litigation in September 2020, said Oct. 15 that he may have unintentionally interfered ...