The legislation would eliminate all geographic limitations on milk distributors and prevent the state from denying milk licenses to protect existing dealers.

The ruling could mean lower milk prices almost immediately and unravel a powerful group of milk distributors that has dominated the market for more than 50 years.

Other worthwhile achievements include a plan to pay for 5,500 new state prison cells and statewide licensing of milk distributors, ending a longstanding cartel.

Only a handful of milk distributors in Maine still make home deliveries; Mr. Garland says he thinks there aren't many left in other states, either.

The ruling could mean lower milk prices almost immediately and unravel a powerful group of milk distributors.

Beyond that, no milk distributor is allowed to sell to him at below-market prices to get his business.

The 2,600 workers are employed by 50 milk distributors in the city and in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties.

I put together a brochure, and a friend of mine, a milk distributor, had his milkmen deliver it to the customers on their routes.

In 1929 the farm was purchased by the Borden Company, among the largest milk distributors of the era, which expanded production at the site.

Over the last two years, Mr. Cuomo has proposed changes in the law that would liberally define the term and allow more milk distributors into the city.