BURLINGTON — After nearly six years in a national class action lawsuit against major powers in the milk-pricing market, some dairy farmers want to fire their lawyers.
Jonathan Haar, a dairy farmer, just finished two days of essentially prosecuting his own attorneys in U.S. District Court for alleged misconduct in reaching a $50 million settlement with the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing co-op based in New Hampshire.
Haar and his wife, Claudia, own Haarvest Farms in upstate New York and represent one of four subclasses in the class action suit, Allen v. Dairy Farmers of America. Their farm is one of about 8,900 farms across the northeastern United States that are affected as part of the case filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington in 2009. The case against the lawyers was heard Monday.
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