The firm serves as a member of the Interim Executive Committee and as liaison counsel on behalf of a proposed class of dairy farmers who sold raw milk according to prices set by the federal government. Plaintiffs allege that the nation’s largest marketer of non-fat dry milk, DairyAmerica, and a California-based milk processing firm, California Dairies, conspired to inflate their own profits at the expense of dairy farmers by misreporting critical data used by the government to set raw milk prices, depriving dairy farmers of millions of dollars.
In 2018, the parties entered into a settlement agreement for $40 million, which was approved by the court on May 8, 2019. Final Judgement was entered on December 9, 2020.