Danny Gifford is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice. In this role, Danny represents a broad range of individuals and businesses in civil litigation, with a focus on multi-district class actions and antitrust litigation.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Danny clerked for the Honorable Pamela A. Harris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Sidney H. Stein of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Danny earned his B.A. from Stanford University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and co-director of Yale Law School’s Capital Assistance Project.
Prior to law school, Danny was a JusticeCorps Fellow at the San Mateo Superior Court Self-Help Center in Redwood City, California, where he taught low-income, pro se litigants how to navigate the stages and procedures of California family law.
- New York
- Yale Law School, J.D., 2020
- Stanford University, B.A., 2016
- Law Clerk, the Hon. Pamela A. Harris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2022 – 2023)
- Law Clerk, the Hon. Sidney H. Stein, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (2020 – 2021)
Current Cases
UFC MMA Fighters Antitrust Litigation
Cung Le, et al v. Zuffa, LLC, d/b/a Ultimate Fighting Championship (D. Nev.): Cohen Milstein is co-lead counsel in this certified wage suppression class action, representing mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters who allege that UFC unlawfully monopolized the MMA market by, among other things, locking up fighters in exclusive contracts and acquiring MMA rivals. On March 20, 2024, parties reached a landmark $335 million settlement agreement.
Ideker Farms, Inc., et al. v. United States of America (NW Missouri Flood Litigation)
Ideker Farms, et al. v. United States of America (Fed. Cl.): Cohen Milstein represents Ideker Farms and more than 400 other plaintiffs located in six states along the Missouri River in a landmark mass action lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims alleging that the federal government took land and flooding easements over lands owned by farmers without any compensation in violation of the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment. Cohen Milstein has helped lead the litigation team, including during both a months-long liability trial in 2017, and a subsequent damages trial in 2020 for bellwether plaintiffs. In December 2020, the Court ruled largely in favor of bellwether plaintiffs. In June 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concurred with the lower court and reversed and remanded the issues of compensation for lost crops and 2011 flooding to the lower court to determine valuation.
In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation
In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.): Cohen Milstein represents a class of broiler chicken consumers in a suit alleging that the nation’s largest chicken producers, including Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods, conspired to raise the price of chicken. On December 20, 2021, the Court granted final approval of settlements with six of the defendants for a total of $181 million. Litigation against the remaining defendants continues.
In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (E.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein represents gasoline retailers in numerous states in an antitrust class against Visa, Inc. and MasterCard, Inc. for orchestrating an anticompetitive scheme artificially inflating the “interchange fees” charged to process credit card transactions on their networks.