Case Foods Must Face Non-Class Claims in Chicken Conspiracy Case

Case Foods Inc. can’t dodge individual antitrust claims brought by scores of retailers over an alleged industrywide scheme to fix chicken prices, a Chicago federal judge ruled, saying any holes in their allegations can be filled by the proposed class actions consolidated with them.

“Since the court has found the allegations in the more fulsome complaints sufficient to state a claim, the court sees no utility in requiring the other plaintiffs to amend their complaints,” Judge Thomas M. Durkin wrote Thursday. “There is no question that Case has notice of the allegations against it.”

The ruling comes two days after ...