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Grocery Deliverer Claims Private Equity Firm Cost It Millions in Longstanding Contracts with El Rancho Chain

Trial is under way in Dallas in the case of a small trucking business that claims it was forced aside when a private equity firm acquired its sole client, a chain of Hispanic food supermarkets.

“My company was destroyed. … It was traumatic. … You keep asking yourself why,” Curtis Lawrence, the founder and owner of Skyward Transportation, testified Tuesday before a jury in the court of state District Judge Aiesha Redmond.

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