Chicken Industry Execs Face DOJ’s Third Trial Over Price-Fixing (Correct)

The Department of Justice is launching its third attempt at convincing a jury that some chicken manufacturing executives violated federal antitrust law by colluding to fix prices.

The trial against current and former executives of Claxton Poultry Farms and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., which starts Monday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, underscores the DOJ antitrust regulators’ insistence on seeing their claims through to the end— despite skepticism from industry proponents and even the court’s judge.

But the repeated efforts also line up with the Biden administration’s focus on cracking down on antitrust abuse across industries. Alleged ...