Legal Opinion
IN RE TURKEY ANTITRUST LITIGATION
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 28, 2024No. 1:19-cv-08318Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ) ) IN RE TURKEY ANTITRUST ) No. 19 C 8318 LITIGATION ) ) Judge Virginia M. Kendall ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Amory Investments, LLC is not a typical plaintiff. It is an investment vehicle, owned and controlled by a litigation funder Burford Capital, LLC, that bought a federal antitrust claim from a bankrupted national food distributor. Defendants, a group of turkey processors, move for summary judgment to dismiss Amory from this suit, invoking the ancient doctrine of champerty to argue that state law…
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