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US: Sysco battles FTC for witness information in antitrust case

By  |  March 18, 2015

Sysco Corp is accusing the US government of failing to provide basic information about its witnesses in advance of a hearing that will be crucial in determining whether the food distributor can rescue its merger with rival US Foods Inc. Sysco and US Foods filed a motion in a Washington, D.C. federal district court on March 6 asking the judge to publicise the names, which the FTC quickly opposed.

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    The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit in February asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a preliminary injunction stopping the $3.5 billion merger from closing while an FTC internal judge holds a parallel court process to determine if the deal should be scrapped.

     

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