December 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice suffered a string of stinging setbacks in criminal antitrust cases this year but also extracted guilty pleas in emerging areas of enforcement, while private antitrust parties saw key rulings on patent and class issues.
July 08, 2022
The defense said the case should have never been brought. The judge told the U.S. Department of Justice's top antitrust official to "reflect" on the evidence after two separate juries deadlocked on price-fixing charges against chicken industry executives.
July 07, 2022
Five chicken executives who had been put on trial a third time by the DOJ over charges of price-fixing were acquitted by a Denver federal jury Thursday, according to a court official.
June 08, 2022
A key insider witness in a price-fixing case against five chicken executives told a Denver federal jury on Wednesday of his astonishment during a 2014 meeting where, he said, it first dawned on him that his superiors believed sharing pricing intel with competitors was "how it's done."
June 07, 2022
Federal antitrust prosecutors began their third try at a criminal price-fixing trial against chicken executives Tuesday in Denver, unveiling a pared-down case that men from two companies "secretly ganged up" to gouge KFC because they knew each other — and to make money.
June 02, 2022
A Colorado federal judge denied acquittal bids from the five remaining poultry industry executives in the government's price fixing case, setting up an extraordinary third trial on the charges next week.
May 24, 2022
A Colorado federal judge once again has refused to nix criminal price-fixing charges against poultry executives, ruling that even two mistrials ahead of the U.S. Department of Justice's looming third attempt to convict them do not create unconstitutional double jeopardy.
May 10, 2022
Poultry executives facing an extraordinary third price-fixing criminal trial filed a flurry of motions seeking to bar over 100 new exhibits and four new witnesses while also arguing the first two mistrials indicate the need for detailed upfront jury instructions or even outright dismissal of the charges.
May 09, 2022
Federal prosecutors cannot delay their third bid at trying a group of poultry executives for alleged price-fixing, a Colorado judge has ruled, finding a weeklong gap in the proceedings will not prejudice the government.
May 04, 2022
Chicken industry executives accused of price-fixing urged a Colorado federal court not to delay their impending third trial, arguing that prosecutors had plenty of time to prepare for the previous trials and their justification for pushing back the start date is vague and groundless.