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Turkey Price-Fixing Settlements — $93.5M, Claims Open Through October 30

Proof or notice ID needed $93.5M

Turkey settlement claims are open. Direct purchasers must file a NEW claim form by October 30 to share $93.575 million. Online filing is live with your notice ID.

Who qualifies and how to claim

Current Status

Claims are open. On August 26, 2026 Judge Sunil R. Harjani granted preliminary approval to the $34 million Butterball settlement and the $37.5 million Hormel and Jennie-O Turkey Store settlement, approved the claims process, and set a schedule that starts notice on September 15, 2026 and closes claim forms on October 30, 2026. A fairness hearing is set for November 24, 2026.

The administrator published the new notice on the official settlement website on schedule, and the Claim Filing section of that site is now accepting online submissions. It had read "Online Claims Filing Coming Soon" earlier in the day. Filing online requires the Unique ID and PIN printed on the notice the administrator mailed or emailed, so the portal is a faster route for a class member who has a notice in hand rather than an alternative for one who does not. A class member holding the pre-printed paper claim form can still file that way instead.

This claims process covers $93,575,000 across six settlements — Cooper Farms and Farbest Foods at $1,687,500 each, House of Raeford at $3,700,000, Prestage at $15,000,000, Hormel/Jennie-O at $37,500,000 and Butterball at $34,000,000. It does not cover the earlier Tyson and Cargill funds — $4,625,000 and $32,500,000 — which are held up pending a Seventh Circuit appeal of the Cargill final approval order and were claimed under a separate, already-closed process.

Three of the settlements in this notice put no money into the fund at all, and it is worth knowing which. Agri Stats pays nothing: its settlement is conduct relief, binding it for five years to make extensive changes to its turkey reports if it ever restarts them, which it stopped doing after this suit was filed. Foster Farms and Perdue pay nothing either — they won summary judgment in July 2026, and their settlements are mutual walk-aways in which neither side pursues the case further or seeks fees or costs from the other.

The single most important thing on this page: a new claim form is required. Filing in the earlier Cargill and Tyson round does not carry forward. The court certified the litigation class in January 2025 with a narrower definition of "turkey" than the Cargill and Tyson settlement classes used, so every prior claim form was built on the wrong product definition for these six settlements. The administrator is sending a pre-printed claim form with each class member's purchases already calculated under the certified definition.

There is no opportunity to opt out. The court certified the class on January 22, 2025, the exclusion deadline passed in May 2025, and the August 26 order expressly declines to reopen it — reasoning that letting class members exclude themselves after summary judgment would invite opt-out decisions based on how the rulings came down. October 30 is a claim and objection deadline, not an exclusion deadline.

This is a direct purchaser class, not a consumer class. It covers the businesses that bought turkey straight from the processors — wholesalers, distributors and large retailers — rather than shoppers who bought a bird at a supermarket. The class is small: the administrator is mailing notice to about 3,357 potential class members and emailing about 351, with four weeks of banner advertising on Supermarket News and Nation's Restaurant News to reach the rest.

The Court-Ordered Schedule

These are the dates as the court set them in its August 26, 2026 order. The two that matter most to a class member are highlighted.

Hormel and Jennie-O filed confirmation of notice to government regulators under the Class Action Fairness Act.

Butterball filed its own confirmation of CAFA notice to regulators.

Settlement administrator commences direct mail and email notice, and begins the publication notice plan.

Co-lead counsel file their motion for attorneys' fees, reimbursement of expenses and class representative service awards.

Documents & history

281 court filings since Mar 2026, the latest on Oct 23, 2026, across 1 docket: 1:19-cv-08318 IN RE TURKEY ANTITRUST LITIGATION (N.D. Ill.).

What has happened

  1. Final approval hearing Hearing · upcoming
  2. Claim deadline Deadline · upcoming
  3. MINUTE entry before the Honorable Sunil R. Harjani: The Court orders that CIIPs and Butterball engage in significant and earnest settlement negotiations in the next three days and report their progress to the Court during the Thursday statu (ECF 1987) Settlement filing
  4. MINUTE entry before the Honorable Sunil R. Harjani: Now that all summary judgment motions have been decided, the Court orders a detailed joint status and scheduling report on the following questions for the DAPs and the Defendants only: (1) (ECF 1991) Settlement filing
  5. MOTION by Plaintiffs John Gross and Company, Inc., Maplevale Farms, Inc. for attorney fees Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs Unopposed Motion for Payment of Attorn… (ECF 1983) Attorneys' fees
  6. MEMORANDUM by John Gross and Company, Inc., Maplevale Farms, Inc. in support of motion for attorney fees, 1983 Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs Unopposed Motion for Payment of Attorneys Fees, Reimbursement of Litigation Costs, Establishment of a (ECF 1984) Attorneys' fees
  7. DECLARATION of Brian D. Clark regarding motion for attorney fees, 1983 Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs Unopposed Motion for Payment of Attorneys Fees, Reimbursement of Litigation Costs, Establishment of a Future Litigation Expense Fund, and Rep (ECF 1985) Attorneys' fees
  8. Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs Notice of Settlement with Defendants Hormel Foods Corporation and Jennie-O Turkey Store, Inc. by Bernie's LLC, Gnemi, LLC d/b/a Logan Farms, Liberty Holding Company, Maquoketa Care (ECF 1986) Settlement filing
  9. MINUTE entry before the Honorable Keri L. Holleb Hotaling: Judge Holleb Hotaling is in receipt of the Plaintiffs (CIIPS) and Defendants Butterball and JOTS confidential settlement update ordered by Judge Harjani on 9/9/2026 [Dkt. 1977]. Set (ECF 1979) Settlement filing
  10. ORDER Granting Unopposed Motion for Preliminary Approval of Commercial and Institutional Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs' Settlement with Defendant Prestage. S… (ECF 1978) Preliminary approval
  11. MINUTE entry before the Honorable Sunil R. Harjani (ECF 1977) Preliminary approval
  12. NOTICE by Prestage Farms of South Carolina, LLC, Prestage Farms, Inc., Prestage Foods, Inc. of Compliance with Class Action Fairness Act (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1 - Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement)(Chase, Nathan) (ECF 1976) Settlement filing
  13. MINUTE entry before the Honorable Sunil R. Harjani. CIIP's motion for preliminary approval of the settlement with the Prestage Defendants set for 9/9/26 at 9:15 a.m. 1971 stands. The previously set hearing on 9/10/26 1953 is stricken. Maile (ECF 1975) Preliminary approval
  14. MOTION by Plaintiffs Bernie's LLC, Gnemi, LLC d/b/a Logan Farms, Liberty Holding Company, Maquoketa Care Center, Martin's BBQ, LLC, Music Matters, LLC, Sande… (ECF 1969) Preliminary approval

Documents

Court filings come from the court's public docket through the free RECAP archive; official documents from the settlement administrator's own site. Other dates come from the official settlement site and the summary above. Nothing here is legal advice. Last checked Oct 24, 2026.

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