Fast-food chain claims that Perdue and other producers inflated prices on billions of dollars worth of chicken.
Chick-fil-A is suing several poultry producers, alleging that the companies fixed prices and caused the fast-food chain to pay inflated prices on billions of dollars worth of chicken. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, comes after the Justice Department in June said a federal grand jury in Colorado found that executives from Colorado-based Pilgrim’s Pride and Georgia-based Claxton Poultry and rig bids for broiler chickens from at least 2012 to 2017.
