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June 5, 2024 In News

Bloomberg Law: Bird Flu Outbreak Sparks Call for Dairy Farms to Protect Workers

"Workers who raise health concerns with their supervisors are further protected by the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s anti-retaliation provisions, said Amal Bouhabib, senior staff attorney with the worker advocacy group FarmSTAND."...

May 31, 2024 In News

Law360: Group Sued Over Immigrants’ Benefits Too Late, Panel Holds

"The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is represented by John C. Philo of the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, and David S. Muraskin of FarmSTAND."...

May 21, 2024 In News

The Washington Post: N.C. to pay $885,000 to animal rights groups for undercover-video suit

"The case was litigated by attorneys from the nonprofit Public Justice, which has since spun off its agriculture-related work into a group called FarmStand. It was backed by animal rights groups as well as free-speech and media organizations."...

May 14, 2024 In News

Law360: Colo. Org Lacks Standing In Access Law Row, Judge Says

Kelsey Eberly, who represents Colorado Legal Services, said in a statement that the judge's decision is a "victory for human decency, and for the health and well-being of farmworkers in the state." "It is also a rebuke to corporate agribusiness attempts to elevate an employer's private...

April 26, 2024 In News

Foreign Farmworker Labor Protections Bolstered in Final Rule

"The revised language recognizes various ways farmworkers can be vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, said Nathan Leys, a staff attorney at FarmSTAND. 'The broader problem is the isolation of these workers,' he said. 'You need to tackle all of the ways that being isolated affects...

March 13, 2024 In News

How Corporations Are Testing a Fringe Legal Theory That Could Derail the Labor Movement and Undermine Workers’ Rights

"As someone who has spent much of my professional career representing advocates and workers fighting back against corporate agriculture giants, one of the most egregious arguments I’ve seen is that property rights supersede the rights of workers – a tactic that’s become increasingly popular in...

January 26, 2024 In News

‘Dark forces’: how US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions

“What the Colorado Livestock Association is doing in Colorado to try to weaponize the supreme court’s more business-friendly precedent is happening across the country,” said Kelsey Eberly, a senior attorney with FarmSTAND who is representing farm workers in an attempt to dismiss the lawsuit opposing...

January 8, 2024 In News

US appeals court revives law banning unauthorized recording on industrial farms

David Muraskin, an attorney representing the animal rights groups, said they will continue to fight, arguing "the law might be applicable to some, but it is unconstitutional as applied to these plaintiffs."...

November 8, 2023 In News

Mindsite News: ‘Retaliation is a reality’: How agribusiness attacks on a Colorado farmworkers rights law erode ranch workers’ mental health

Until recently, many Colorado agricultural workers toiling on remote rural farms and ranches couldn’t count on being able to talk with community healthcare workers or other visitors at their home – if it was on their employer’s land. ...

October 20, 2023 In News

Food Safety News: SCOTUS isn’t interested in taking up Ag-gag

This week, the Supreme Court turned down North Carolina’s appeal to stop operatives from secretly taking documents and recordings without the owner’s permission....