{"id":130643,"date":"2011-10-04T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130643"},"modified":"2011-10-05T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:29:22","slug":"big-ruling-against-pilgrims-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130643","title":{"rendered":"Big Ruling against Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=130644\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/thumb_pilgrimspride-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_pilgrimspride\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-130644\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMARSHALL &#8212; 91 Arkansas contract poultry growers would receive $26 million in damages under a ruling issued by a federal judge in Marshall.  U.S. Magistrate Charles Everingham found Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride was deliberately attempting to manipulate the price of chicken when the company decided to close its El Dorado plant in early 2009. Plaintiffs&#8217; attorney Bob Depper says the turning point in the case was an email concerning the sale of another plant.  Depper says when Pilgrim&#8217;s had the opportunity to sell the farmable plants it had closed down, there was an internal memo that said the company couldn&#8217;t do that because it would foil its plan.   Awards to individual growers ranged from $50,000 to over $700,000. The judge indicated there had been difficulty in determining damages because some growers had failed to keep accurate records. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL &#8212; 91 Arkansas contract poultry growers would receive $26 million in damages under a ruling issued by a federal judge in Marshall. U.S. Magistrate Charles Everingham found Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride was deliberately attempting to manipulate the price of chicken when the company decided to close its El Dorado plant in early 2009. Plaintiffs&#8217; attorney Bob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=130643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Ruling against Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 18:57:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130643"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130971,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions\/130971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}