The Vermont attorney general wants to evaluate a proposed settlement between some Northeast dairy farmers and a major national milk processor.
Dallas-based Dean Foods Co. has agreed to pay $30 million to the dairy farmers and change its milk-buying practices in the region for 30 months to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit.
Assistant Attorney General Elliot Burg told a federal judge in Burlington on Thursday there's been "intense interest" in the settlement in Vermont because "dairy is an important industry in the state."
Attorney General William Sorrell said in court papers obtained by The Associated Press that he was seeking to "advise the public, in the form of the legislature and the Department of Agriculture, as to the merits or deficiencies of the proposed settlement."
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