$87.5M Beef Settlement Ends Antitrust Litigation Over Alleged Price-Fixing by Cargill, Tyson
January 6, 2026 A combined $87.5M Cargill and Tyson settlement offers cash to consumers who purchased certain beef products between Aug. 2014 and Dec. 2019.
Lawsuit Filings
![Red Meat Producers Conspired to Keep Wages Low at Processing Plants, Class Action Alleges [UPDATE]](/media/meat-packing-antitrust-newswire-thumb.jpg)
Red Meat Producers Conspired to Keep Wages Low at Processing Plants, Class Action Alleges [UPDATE]
November 14, 2022 Eleven of the country’s largest meat processors have conspired to fix and depress the wages paid to employees at red meat processing plants nationwide, a class action alleges.
Amid DOJ Probe, ‘Big Four’ Beef Packers Hit with Antitrust Class Action Over Alleged Price Fixing, Supply Limiting [UPDATE]
June 10, 2020 The world's largest meatpackers face an antitrust class action over an alleged conspiracy to limit domestic meat supplies and thereby artificially inflate prices.
![‘Big Four’ Beef Cos. Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Conspiracy to Suppress the Price of Fed Cattle [UPDATE]](/media/cattle-newswire-thumb.jpg)
‘Big Four’ Beef Cos. Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Conspiracy to Suppress the Price of Fed Cattle [UPDATE]
April 24, 2019 [UPDATE] A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed over an alleged conspiracy to artificially suppress the price of fed cattle for the production of high-quality beef products.