Restaurants leading litigation over an alleged industrywide scheme to fix chicken prices got the approval of a federal judge in Chicago for $104 million in settlements—including $31 million in legal fees—with
Judge Thomas M. Durkin awarded the fees Tuesday, along with $10 million in expenses, a day after signing off on pacts with seven poultry processors, including a $42.5 million agreement with Tyson and a $44 million deal with Pilgrim’s, a subsidiary of Brazilian meatpacking giant
The other related antitrust settlements Durkin approved were a ...