(July 12, 2024, 11:54 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — In a pair of rulings in an antitrust case accusing broiler sellers of fixing the prices for chicken, a federal judge in Illinois granted final approval to a settlement between direct-purchaser plaintiffs (DPPs) and six prevailing defendants eliminating the DPPs from having to pay litigation costs and approved a reduction of attorney fees for the end-user consumer plaintiffs (EUCPs) after the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated and remanded an earlier award of one-third the settlement or $57.4 million....