Boston Market Corp. and other restaurant chains remain bound to an $8 million chicken price-fixing settlement after the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s conclusion that the deal was reasonable.
The restaurants didn’t supply any evidence that an $8 million deal struck with Simmons Foods Inc. had an unreasonably low value, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit wrote in an opinion.
“We have not seen anything that would paint the district court’s reasonableness finding as a clear error or abuse of discretion,” Easterbrook said.
The ruling is a setback for ...
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