Milk Processors Soured After Rare Monopsony Ruling

Law360, New York (June 23, 2014, 1:17 PM EDT) -- ​Nearly five years into a wide-ranging monopsonization suit accusing milk processors of conspiring to depress and fix the prices paid to independent and cooperative milk suppliers, Judge Christina Reiss of the District of Vermont ruled that a narrowed set of the dairy farmers' class claims will proceed to trial. Allen v. Dairy Farmers of America Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81193 (D. Vt. June 11, 2014).[1] The court held that the plaintiffs' conspiracy, monopsonization, attempted monopsonization, and damages claims survived the defendants' summary judgment motion, but that the plaintiffs' price-fixing claims failed as a matter of law....

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