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October 19, 2023 In News

Law360: Colo. Rancher Challenge To Farm Labor Law Moves To Denver

"The provision the Livestock Association challenges is important to preserve because agricultural employers have often blocked and intimidated service providers attempting to meet with agricultural workers, including Colorado Legal Services." Kelsey Eberley, Senior Staff Attorney...

October 17, 2023 In News

The News & Observer: Supreme Court won’t step in to save NC law that punished secret recordings

SCOTUS upheld a legal victory for advocates who argued a 2015 NC law aimed to punish undercover recording at farms and other businesses restricted whistleblowing....

October 16, 2023 In News

Supreme Court leaves in place court victory for PETA over North Carolina ag-gag law

The Supreme Court has rejected North Carolina’s appeal in a dispute with animal rights groups over a law aimed at preventing undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video...

September 27, 2023 In News

Law Week Colorado: Colorado Legal Services Seeks to Intervene in Challenge to Agricultural Workers’ Rights Bill

A Colorado law protecting agricultural workers’ rights and ensuring access to essential service providers is undergoing another legal challenge. ...

September 26, 2023 In News

The New Lede: Taking a stand — new legal group focuses on farm country

The New Lede spoke with FarmSTAND Executive Director Jessica Culpepper about the group’s goals to dismantle a “corporate-controlled, industrial food system” and support regenerative farming to help “change the system from the ground up.”...

September 26, 2023 In News

Sentient Media: A New Coalition for Suing Factory Farms Launches

Now, organizations like Dakota Rural Action have a new ally, a hub focused on uniting lawyers across the country toward the goal of protecting people from factory farms....

September 21, 2023 In News

Investigate Midwest: A new network of attorneys fights the abuses of industrial agriculture. First up, Colorado.

FarmSTAND focuses resources on specific cases that can change precedent on agricultural issues in the courts, working in collaboration with grassroots organizations from local to national levels....

September 20, 2023 In News

Agri-Pulse: New legal group wants to ‘dismantle’ corporate ag

A new legal group will focus on “dismantling corporate agriculture,” particularly consolidation in the meat industry....

June 28, 2023 In News

Sunnyside Sun: Washington State dairies to clean up groundwater in response to lawsuit

Upgrades to manure management, provision of clean drinking water to residents among the many improvements in the settlement. ...

June 13, 2023 In News

El Sol de Yakima: Dos lecherías del valle bajo acuerdan mejoras medioambientales, limpiar aguas subterráneas

Dos granjas lecheras del valle bajo aceptaron realizar importantes mejoras medioambientales y embarcarse en un proyecto de limpieza de aguas subterráneas en el marco de un acuerdo alcanzado en un tribunal federal....