2:08-md-01000 US District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
Overview
The lawsuit claims that Defendants and their Co-Conspirators unlawfully agreed and conspired to monopolize, to fix prices at suppressed levels, and to eliminate competition for the marketing, sale, and purchase of raw Grade A milk in Federal Milk Market Orders 5 and 7 (“Southeast”). This includes Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and parts of Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The lawsuit claims that Defendants and their Co-Conspirators unlawfully agreed and conspired to monopolize, to fix prices at suppressed levels, and to eliminate competition for the marketing, sale, and purchase of raw Grade A milk in Federal Milk Market Orders 5 and 7 (“Southeast”). This includes Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and parts of Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Class
You are a member of the Class if your farm produced Grade A milk within Orders 5 or 7 and sold that milk directly or through an agent to Defendants or alleged Co-Conspirators in Orders 5 and/or 7 any time from January 1, 2001 to the present.
Current Defendants
- Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.
- Dairy Marketing Services, LLC
- Dean Foods Co.
- Gary Hanman
- Gerald Bos
- James Baird
- Mid-Am Capital LLC
- National Dairy Holdings LP
- Southern Marketing Agency, Inc.
Current Co-Conspirators
- Allen A. Meyer
- Dairy.Com, Inc.
- Gregg L. Engles
- Herman Brubaker
- Jay Bryant
- Michael J. McCloskey
- Pete Schenkel
- Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.
- Robert W. Allen
- The Kroger Co.
Partial Settlements: $145,000,000
Dean Foods has agreed to pay a total of $140 Million over four or five years into a fund that would be distributed to dairy farmers involved in the class action lawsuit. Southern Marketing Agency and James Baird have agreed to pay an additional $5 million into a settlement fund.
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