Tyson Foods Seeks Sanctions for Burford Unit in Price-Fixing Suit

Tyson Foods and several other defendants in the US chicken broiler antitrust litigation have sought sanctions against Carina Ventures, a special purpose vehicle controlled by Burford Capital that acquired claims originally brought by Sysco, alleging that evidence relevant to bid-rigging claims was destroyed and asking the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss Carina’s claims as a result.

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