Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Practice Area: Class Actions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Agriculture
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Fallon
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Misty A. Seemans, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE; Marco Simons, Richard Herz, Marissa Vahlsing, Bejamin Hoffman, EarthRights International, Washington, DC; Jonathan Kaufman, Law Office of Jonathan Kaufman, New York, NY; Judith Brown Chomsky, Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Susan Hannigan Cohen, Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey T. Green, Green Law Chartered, Bethesda, MD; Marisa S. West, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
Case Number: 17-1494-JFB-SRF
Court approved class action settlement on behalf of farmers where most of the settlement funds went to fund community programs for class members, who constituted economically disadvantaged farmers in developing countries.