Perdue Farms Inc. isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction in two cases challenging the Department of Labor’s administrative law judges, a federal court said.

Several people from Cumberland, Fentress and Putnam counties will lose their jobs by the end of March when Perdue Farms Co. closes its plant in Monterey, TN.

A federal judge said food suppliers, restaurants, caterers and others can band together in antitrust class actions accusing the nation’s largest turkey meat processors of artificially fixing prices ...