The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and other media covered a lawsuit filed by lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner on behalf of US Foods and Sysco alleging illegal price fixing against more than two dozen poultry companies, including Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Sanderson Farms, and Perdue Farms.
“By their wrongful conduct as alleged in this complaint, defendants not only materially reduced or eliminated the historical boom and bust cycle of the chicken industry, they propped up chicken prices during periods of rapidly falling input costs by, among other means, coordinating supply restrictions and manipulating one or more broiler price indices,” the National Law Journal quoted the lawsuit as saying.
US Foods and Sysco are represented by partners Scott Gant and Jonathan Shaw, and associate Kyle Smith, in Washington D.C.
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