Emily Ashcraft

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Preliminary Approval Granted to Chicken Antitrust Settlement

Judge Thomas M. Durkin of the Northern District of Illinois granted preliminary approval for two settlement agreements between Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride with the direct purchaser class of...

EPA Files Environmental Complaint Regarding Puerto Rico Landfill

On Thursday, the United States filed an environmental complaint against Puerto Rico’s Municipality of Toa Alta in the Puerto Rico District Court claiming that the municipality’s solid waste landfill...

DFA Reaches Settlement With Food Lion Regarding Antitrust Allegations

Dairy Farmers of America reportedly reached a settlement with Food Lion, a grocery company, and Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association (MDVA) Inc in a lawsuit purporting that...

State Appeals Court Affirms That Foster Farms Chicken Can...

The California State Court of Appeals, Second District, ruled in favor of Foster Poultry Farm, Inc. on Tuesday, affirming the Superior Court of Los Angeles County decision, that Foster...

Complaint Claims Syngenta Herbicide Caused Plaintiffs’ Parkinson’s Disease

Syngenta Crop Protection and Chevron U.S.A. received a complaint on Tuesday in the Southern District of Illinois purporting that its products containing paraquat, a synthetic chemical compound used as...

Evidence in Peanut Antitrust Suit Will Include Plaintiffs’ Communication...

In an antitrust lawsuit filed against Golden Peanut Company and other Runner peanut producers accusing them of antitrust activity, a judge ruled on four motions in limine filed by...