Milk comes in whole, reduced-fat, low-fat and no-fat versions. ... California is remarkable in that a 35-year campaign waged by the founders of Alta-Dena Dairy preserved the right for most stores ...

The Alta Dena name came from their first delivery route in 1945 in Altadena. In 1950, riding California’s postwar boom, the brothers bought 100 acres in Chino for a larger herd.

The heirs to the Alta Dena milk empire today lost their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against an Irvine-based law firm that employed an attorney who they claim helped raid $50 million of their fortune.