Tyson Foods Escapes Poultry Waste Processing Firm’s Boycott Suit

A federal judge granted Tyson Foods Inc. its bid to end a case alleging the company illegally drove a poultry waste processing firm out of business, concluding that the plaintiff failed to show antitrust injury and lacked standing.

The Tuesday ruling closes a case brought in 2022 by plaintiff American Proteins Inc., which claimed Tyson and several units colluded with supplier-customers Wayne Farms and Koch Foods to eliminate it from the Southeast market for poultry rendering.

But API’s alleged injuries, including loss of profits, do not “flow from unlawful activity forbidden by the antitrust law,” Judge Richard W. Story of ...