The owners of several dairy farms in California were sued in federal court for allegedly forming a cartel to suppress competition in the dairy market.
The owners of Charles Ahlem Ranch, Nunes Brothers Dairy, and Bordessa Family Dairies GP are among the 14 defendants accused of inflating the price of raw grade A milk through a program funded by an assessment on milk producers, according to a complaint filed Wednesday by roughly a dozen business plaintiffs in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California.
The defendants allegedly operated the cartel under the auspices of the “quota implementation ...
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