Restaurants Fail to Axe Koch’s Chicken Price-Fixing Settlement

A group of restaurant chains failed to convince a federal appeals court to let them opt-out of a $47.5 million class action settlement that resolved chicken price-fixing claims against Koch Foods Inc. and its subsidiaries.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a ruling Wednesday said the restaurants, which include Boston Market Corp., Bojangles’ Restaurants Inc., Golden Corral Corp., and Domino’s Pizza LLC, were a part of the class at the time of the settlement and they failed to show that the settlement was unreasonably small.

• The appeals court’s short ruling pointed to its previous opinion from ...