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  • Oakhurst OT case of missing-comma fame settled for $5 million

    02/10/2018 6:00:43 AM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 16 replies
    Portland Press Herald ^ | Feb. 9, 2018 | Edward D. Murphy
    The class-action lawsuit against Oakhurst Dairy that led to a memorable ruling highlighting the virtues of the Oxford comma has been settled for $5 million. The suit, filed in 2014, alleged that drivers for Oakhurst were eligible for overtime pay that they never received. The dairy, which in early 2014 was sold to a farmers cooperative by the Maine family that had owned it for 93 years, argued that the wording of a state law meant the drivers weren’t eligible for overtime pay.
  • FAIR WARNING, Monsanto’s treacherous case against Oakhurst(Monsanto sues small Maine dairy)

    09/23/2003 12:18:01 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 23 replies · 462+ views
    thePorlandPhoenix ^ | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | Jess Kilby
    By now even the lactose intolerant are aware of the battle being waged by chemical giant Monsanto against the against the locally owned and operated [Portland, Maine] Oakhurst Dairy over the "hormone-free" label Oakhurst uses on its milk. Monsanto is the sole US producer of the artificial-growth hormone in question, and reportedly doesn’t like the implication that customers should care about — or want to avoid — such a chemical in their dairy products. Monsanto recently filed for an injunction to prevent Oakhurst from labeling or advertising its milk as hormone-free, based primarily on the fact that Posilac (the hormone’s...
  • Man injured in raid targeting gun, drug trafficking and worse - raids involved over 500 agents

    07/08/2003 10:56:40 AM PDT · by chance33_98 · 11 replies · 496+ views
    Man injured in raid targeting gun, drug trafficking and worse 07/08/2003 By News Channel 3 / azfamily.com Staff PHOENIX -- More than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers armed with 40 search warrants and 36 arrest warrants fanned out across Arizona Tuesday . Tom Mangan, spokeman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the raids are the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation targeting firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, bomb-making and murder-for-hire. Mangan says officers intended to seize machine guns, bombs, bomb-making materials and drugs during the raids, which focused in part on outlaw motorcycle gangs....