Burford Capital Challenges Court Order in Sysco’s Chicken Price-Fixing Settlement

A Burford Capital Unit has renewed its efforts to extricate itself from a chicken price-fixing settlement that Sysco Corporation reached via email with Pilgrim’s Pride. In the latest development, Burford contended before an Illinois federal court that the Seventh Circuit has deemed the order backing the settlement to be “fatally flawed.” This assertion was made on Monday, underscoring ongoing litigation complexity surrounding the case. For further details, the situation has been extensively covered in Law360.