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Walgreens was hit with a putative class action in Illinois federal court Friday accusing it of making robocalls to consumers without their consent, led by an Illinois man who says the calls persisted even after he reached out to the pharmacy giant three times to ask its representatives to stop.

Cal-Maine's chairman testified Wednesday that the company adopted animal welfare measures not as part of a conspiracy with competitors and two trade associations to raise the price of eggs, but because customers including Wal-Mart and other major grocery chains insisted on it to protect their own brands.

Cal-Maine's chairman testified Monday that he and executives of the company's competitors sat on trade association committees that urged the egg industry as a whole to adopt measures to reduce the supply of eggs in the United States, with the participation of various producers often documented in the association's newsletters.

Two top egg producers and two trade associations conspired to raise prices and forced major food companies to pay inflated costs to make food products found "in just about every cabinet and every kitchen table," counsel for Kraft, Kellogg, General Mills and Nestle told an Illinois federal jury Thursday.

Ad buyers asked an Illinois federal judge Wednesday for her final signoff on a $48 million deal settling CBS, Cox and Fox out of multidistrict litigation over an alleged scheme among U.S. broadcasters to fix television ad prices, saying it would provide substantial relief while "eliminating the risk, uncertainty, and expense of continuing litigation."

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated a lower court's order denying ATM manufacturer NCR Corp.'s bid for a new trial in a technician's overtime suit, ordering it to reconsider in light of the court's finding that NCR was not obligated to pay unauthorized overtime when the technician did not record it.

A Seventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical Tuesday of the denial of coverage by Travelers Indemnity Co. of Connecticut to an association of condo owners who were ordered to evacuate their collapsing building, with one judge saying they seemed to face a "Hobson's choice" in following the order to leave their unsafe homes when the policy contains an exclusion for "governmental action."

A Seventh Circuit judge was skeptical Wednesday about the National Labor Relations Board finding that an Indianapolis surgery center unlawfully fired an employee who raised concerns about unlicensed workers' use of X-ray equipment, saying there was no conclusive evidence that his supervisor knew he spoke up about it at a meeting.

The first civil jury trial in massive consolidated litigation accusing the nation's largest chicken suppliers of fixing prices is set to kick off in Chicago federal court Monday, and antitrust experts say they'll be watching to see what both sides have learned from the U.S. Department of Justice's recently fumbled criminal probe over the same alleged conduct.

The Chicago White Sox has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to sell season tickets for wheelchair-accessible seats on the team's website, forcing fans with disabilities to purchase tickets in other ways and limiting the pool of seat options, a Wednesday proposed class action in Illinois federal court alleges.