Rivera v. Chapel

OPINION

PESQUERA, District Judge.

This action has been brought to declare unlawful and enjoin what the plaintiffs allege to be an unlawful and/or unwarranted increase in the price of fresh milk, as well as the unlawful establishment of a mechanism for the automatic adjustment of the same, by the defendants Antonio González Chapel, Secretary of Agriculture, and Raúl Bras Serra, Administrator of the Milk Industry Regulation Office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The suit was brought as a class action, on behalf of all consumers of fresh milk who have been or may be affected by the alleged…