If you have bought chicken in the last decade, you can be entitled to some money back.
A settlement of $ 181 million is being treated in the chicken antitrust case of the chicken chicken, a test claimsPrice agreements in the poultry industry.
The lawsuit claims that the defendants and "their fellow samplers together to limit and raise the supply of the price of chicken, increase and stabilize, from 1 January 2009, in conflict with the federal and national consumer and antitrust laws."
To be eligible to receive money, you must have bought fresh or frozen raw chicken between January 2009 and December 31, 2020 and a claim scheme of submittingOverchargedforchicken.com.U must also be a resident of one of the 24 states or Washington D.C.(See the list below with states.)
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Chicken, which is marketed as Halal, Kosher, Free Spout or Organic, is excluded, says the scheme.
Pilgrims Pride Corporation and Tyson Foods, Inc.is one of the chicken producers who have reached a settlement in the case. Other defendants in the court case are Perdue Foods, Sanderon Farms, Wayne Farms and Koch Foods.
Poultry prices established?
The American poultry industryHas operated on surgery under a cloud in recent years.Confirm poultry pricesfor a period of eight years.
The US Department of Justice intervened in the case and has charged at least 10 peopleAnti -erust -violations, including current and former employees at Pilgrims Pride, Kaxton Poultry Farms, Perdue Farms and Koch Foods.Sanderon Farms and Wayne Farms are not charged.
According to aNews item, the permanent defendants "have not allowed any liability and continue to deny the legal claims that claim and have agreed in" the process "to avoid further costs, disadvantages, disruptions and trouble with this process ... and thereby add this controversy to the restThis controversy.
Chicken class action suit: serve a requirement
You can archive the required form Online onOverchargedforchicken.comofPrint a PDFTo send in.
The requirements formulars ask for that Whetheryou was a bosenty in the prevailing 24 states or Washington d.c.:california, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexic, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada.
The shopping data for the chicken are January 2009 to December 31, 2020, but dates differ in Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
The form also requires your best estimate of how many chicken packages you have purchased on an amontly basis and the estimated costs.
The deadline for submitting a claim is December 31, 2022. To exclude yourself from the case, you must submit a request for exclusion before November 10, 2021, theSettlement siteParticipation.
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