class action lawsuit viability (Milk!)

Submitted by jdon on

As a michigan resident I am eligible to submit a claim at BoughtMilk.com and am thinking about fileing.

It seems legit: I am wondering if any one else resides in Michigan, or the 14 other states involved, intends to submit a claim.

Also, you may insert all of your Harbaugh deserves double pay for his whole milk comments!

Love,

jdon

 

bsand2053

January 17th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^

I'm not making a judgement either way but that's probably because a lot of people are googling that phrase to see if it is a scam.  FWIW I signed up a month ago and when I googled it then I didn't see anything that convinced me it was a scam.

NRK

January 17th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^

When class action lawsuits are settled it is very common practice to use a claims administrator, who handles this type of thing. They regularly set up these type of web pages with the info, opt in/opt out, etc.

 

I'm sure there's someone who has tried to fake these before, but you should NEVER have to give out too much detail to get a class action settlement payment - and definitely no financial information.

 

jdon

January 17th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^

I pondered the OT label and then decided against it  as A.) we are in the offseaon and B.) Harbaugh goes hand in hand with Milk; on the SAT last year one question read  dantonio is to pathetic scowls as Harbaugh is to ____(milk)____.

 

 

TIMMMAAY

January 17th, 2017 at 12:01 PM ^

Eh, seems legit to me. I saw an article about it this morning. Basically, one of the major dairy producers was killing cows, thus illegally increasing milk prices. I believe it's an anti-trust lawsuit. 

We will probably do it just for the principle of the matter. 

ThereWillBeNoHugs

January 17th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^

Because it is a settlement, that means it's less than what the consumer should/will get (especially when you subtract those pesky legal fees). So no, there's nothing free about it. I am confident a majority of individual consumers have bought way more in overcharges of dairy products over the last 10+ years than a single 10-20 dollar settlement payout check. We are only getting a fraction of what we were overcharged back. In any case, I've signed up.

youn2948

January 17th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^

There were also 43 million gallon's dumped.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-dairy-farmers-dump-43-million-gall…



With all of the soy alternatives and dairy free diets there was a massive milk glut.

I think this is a stupid lawsuit for lawyers to make money and for PETA to put a feather in their cap.

There may be some underlying evil but dairy farmers had a horrible year in 2016 AFAIK.