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Defendants subsequently filed a post-trial motion to dismiss, which the court denied on June 26, 2024.
−Removed: An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for December 2024.
+Added: The court convened an evidentiary hearing which concluded on December 17, 2024.
+Added: The parties completed post-hearing briefing thereafter.
+Added: On June 17, 2025, the Court entered an opinion and order concluding that conditions in the Illinois River Watershed had not changed materially since the original trial in 2009 and 2010.
+Added: The following day, the court entered an order setting a schedule for the parties to make written submissions concerning the terms of the final judgment the court should enter.
+Added: Those submissions were completed August 11, 2025, and remain pending before the court.
+Added: After consideration of these submissions, the court is expected to enter a final judgment imposing the remedies, if any, that it deems appropriate based on the evidence in the record.
Other Matters
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Chairman of the Board of Directors John H.
−Removed: Tyson is the father of John R.
+Added: Tyson is the father of Directors John R.
+Added: Tyson and Olivia L.
Tyson and nephew of Director Barbara A.
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Lori Bondar Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer 64 2023
−Removed: Melanie Boulden Chief Growth Officer 52 2023
Curt Calaway Chief Financial Officer 52 2024
−Removed: Devin Cole President, International & Global McDonald's 54 2024
−Removed: Adam Deckinger General Counsel and Secretary 48 2023
+Added: Devin Cole Chief Operating Officer 55 2024
+Added: Adam Deckinger General Counsel 49 2023
Jacqueline Hanson Chief People Officer 56 2024
Donnie King President and Chief Executive Officer 63 2019
−Removed: Wes Morris Group President, Poultry 59 2023
−Removed: Kyle Narron Group President, Prepared Foods 44 2024
−Removed: Brady Stewart Group President, Beef, Pork and Chief Supply Chain Officer 45 2023
−Removed: Tyson Executive Vice President 34 2019
Tyson has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1998 and was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 2000 until 2006.
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Bondar was employed by Avery Dennison Corporation from 2008 to 2023 prior to joining the Company.
−Removed: Melanie Boulden was appointed Chief Growth Officer since her initial employment with the Company in February 2023.
−Removed: She has also served as Group President, Prepared Foods from September 2023 to September 2024.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Ms.
−Removed: Boulden was employed by The Coca-Cola Company from 2019 to 2022, Reebok International from 2018 to 2019, and Crayola and Kraft Foods prior to that.
Curt Calaway was appointed Chief Financial Officer in August 2024, after serving as interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2024 to August 2024, as Chief Financial Officer for the Company's Prepared Foods business segment from May 2024 to August 2024, and as Senior Vice President and Treasurer from April 2022 to May 2024 and from December 2018 to May 2021.
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Calaway was initially employed by the Company in 2006.
−Removed: Devin Cole was appointed as President, International & Global McDonald’s in July 2024 after serving as President, Global McDonald’s since March 2024.
−Removed: He was also employed at the Company from 1995 to 2014, serving in various roles including as a Group Vice President and as Chief Commercial Officer.
+Added: Devin Cole was appointed as Chief Operating Officer in September 2025 after serving in various roles since March of 2024 including Group President Poultry, International & Global McDonald’s.
+Added: He was also employed at the Company from 1995 to 2014, serving in various roles including as Group Vice President and as Chief Commercial Officer.
Cole was employed by George’s Inc.
from 2016 to 2023 and Keystone Foods from 2015 to 2016 before returning to the Company.
−Removed: Adam Deckinger was appointed as General Counsel and Secretary in January 2023 after serving as Senior Vice President and Head of Law and Compliance since November 2022.
−Removed: Prior to that role, Mr.
−Removed: Deckinger served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel since his initial employment with the Company in April 2018.
+Added: Adam Deckinger was appointed as General Counsel in January 2023, and served concurrently as Secretary from January 2023 to May 2025.
+Added: Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Head of Law and Compliance from November 2022 to January 2023, and as Vice President and Associate General Counsel since his initial employment with the Company in April 2018.
+Added: Subsequent to the end of fiscal 2025, Mr.
+Added: Deckinger was appointed Chief Legal and Administrative Officer on September 30, 2025.
Deckinger was employed by The Boeing Company prior to joining the Company.
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King was self-employed from 2016 to February 2019 before returning to the Company.
−Removed: Wes Morris was appointed Group President, Poultry in January 2023 after serving as a consultant to the Company since October 2020.
−Removed: Morris was previously employed by the Company from 1999 until 2017 and has served in many leadership roles including President, Prepared Foods Operations.
−Removed: Morris was employed by Simmons Foods before his return to the Company.
−Removed: Brady Stewart was appointed Group President, Beef, Pork and Chief Supply Chain Officer in August 2023 after serving as Group President, Fresh Meats since his initial employment with the Company in January 2023.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
−Removed: Stewart was employed by Smithfield Foods from 2017 to 2022 and the Kansas City Sausage Company prior to that.
−Removed: Kyle Narron was appointed Group President, Prepared Foods in October 2024, after serving as Senior Vice President of Pork and Prepared Foods from February 2023 to September 2024.
−Removed: Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
−Removed: Narron was employed by Smithfield Foods and Summit Logistics Group.
−Removed: Tyson is an Executive Vice President of the Company.
−Removed: He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company from October 2022 to June 2024, after serving as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Chief Sustainability Officer since October 2021, as Chief Sustainability Officer from September 2019 to October 2021, and as Director, Office of the Chief Executive Officer since his initial employment with the Company in May 2019.
−Removed: Tyson has been an observer at the Company’s board of directors’ meetings since 2014.
−Removed: He was employed by J.P.
−Removed: Morgan and as a private equity and venture capital investor prior to joining the Company.
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