STATE OF MICH. EX REL. KELLEY v. McDONALD DAIRY CO.

No. 5:94:CV:158.

905 F.Supp. 447 (1995)

STATE OF MICHIGAN, ex rel. Frank J. KELLEY, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, on behalf of Michigan Public School Districts identified in Exhibit 1 attached to the Complaint; Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, State of Michigan, ex rel. Attorney General of the State of Michigan, on behalf of Michigan Public School Districts identified in Exhibit 1 attached to the Complaint, et al., Plaintiffs, v. McDONALD DAIRY COMPANY; Bareman Dairy, Inc.; Allen Dairy Company, a division of Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.; Country Fresh, Inc., dba Heatherwood Farms Company dba Peninsula Products Company; Dairy Maid; Detroit Pure Milk dba Farm Maid Dairy dba Lockshore Dairy dba Twin Pines Dairy; Lansing Dairy, Inc.; New Paris Creamery Company; Roeloff Dairy; Scholl Dairy; Sherman Dairy Products Company, Inc.; Stanley Bareman, Individually; Jerome Bullis, Individually; Richard Bylsma, Individually; Larry Grassmid, Individually; Jerry La Clair, Individually; Robert Petz, Individually; Wayne Roeloff, Individually; Stephen Scholl, Individually; Harvey Scholten, Individually; Dan Schummer, Individually; Porter Sherman, Individually; Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.

June 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Berardo, Gordon W. Van Wieren, Jr., Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, PC, Lansing, MI, Robert C. Ward, Jr., Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, Lansing, MI, Richard Alan Arnold, Kenny, Nachwalter, Seymour & Arnold, PA, Miami, FL, for plaintiffs State of Michigan et al.

Patrick J. Berardo, Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, PC, Lansing, MI, Robert C. Ward, Jr., Lansing, MI, Richard Alan Arnold, Kenny, Nachwalter, Seymour & Arnold, PA, for plaintiffs Barry Intermediate School Dist. et al.

Daniel R. Gravelyn, Warner, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, MI, for defendants, McDonald Dairy Company et al.

Jeffrey A. Roth (attorney not found during case opening), Richard L. Reinish, Robert W. Pratt, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, IL, Richard D. Persinger, Knoll, Persinger & Knoll, PC, Holland, MI, for defendants Bareman Dairy, Inc. et al.

James L. Anderson, Illinois Agricultural Association, Office of The General Counsel, Bloomington, IL, for defendant Allen Dairy Company, a division of Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.

Thomas A. Hoffman, Wrigley & Hoffman, PC, Grand Rapids, MI, for defendants Dairy Maid et al.

Monique K. Cirelli (attorney not found during case opening), Stephen E. Glazek, Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, Detroit, MI, for defendant Detroit Pure Milk.

Ronald G. Acho, Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, PC, Livonia, MI, James L. Dyer, Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, PC, Battle Creek, MI, Eric D. Smith, Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, PC, Farmington Hills, MI, for defendant Lansing Dairy, Inc.

Grant J. Gruel, Gruel, Mills, Nims & Pylman, Grand Rapids, MI, for defendants Roeloff Dairy et al.

Frederick D. Dilley, Boyden, Waddell, Timmons & Dilley, Grand Rapids, MI, Lee Warren Dabagia, Sweeney, Dabagia, Donoghue, Thorne, Janes & Pagos, Michigan City, IN, for defendants Scholl Dairy et al.

Douglas L. Callander, Jeffrey Cannon O'Brien, Kreis, Enderle, Callander & Hudgins, PC, Kalamazoo, MI, Michael J. Roberts, Roberts, Betz & Bloss, PC, Grand Rapids, MI, for defendant Sherman Dairy Products Company, Inc.

Jerome Bullis, DeLand, FL, pro se.

Vincent Connelly, for defendant Richard Bylsma.

Larry C. Willey, Grand Rapids, MI, for defendant Jerry La Clair.

Robert Petz, Plainwell, MI, pro se.

Timothy E. Eagle, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, MI, Judy E. Bregman, Bregman & Welch, Grand Haven, MI, for defendant Porter Sherman.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

The matters before the Court are defendants' motions to dismiss and to strike. The defendants raise substantially the same arguments in their separate motions; accordingly, the Court will address the motions together.

FACTS

Defendants are dairy companies and some of their acting or former executives. Plaintiffs are Michigan area public school districts,

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