Press Releases
Colorado Legal Services Sues Southern Colorado Farm for Interfering with Farm Workers’ Access to Services
Colorado Legal Services this week filed a lawsuit against a Center, CO farm and its farm labor contractor over illegal obstruction of CLS’s visits to workers staying at the farm’s…
Tyson Foods Agrees to Stop Making ‘Net-zero’ and ‘Climate-smart Beef’ Claims
Lawsuit alleged Tyson Foods falsely claimed it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketed its industrial beef products as “climate-smart” The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has settled its greenwashing lawsuit…
Former Amazon Worker Challenges Trump Administration’s Attack on Disparate-Impact Discrimination Claims
Leah Cross, a former Amazon delivery driver, filed suit today against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over its decision to prohibit its employees from continuing to investigate claims like…
Clean Water Advocates Warn Pacific Seafood of Legal Action Over Warrenton Pollution
PORTLAND — Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) intend to sue a Pacific Bio Products facility over more than three years of ongoing pollution of the…
Civil Rights and Immigrant Advocates Await Supreme Court Decision in MIRC v Whitmer
Today the Michigan Supreme Court heard oral argument in MIRC v. Whitmer, a case that will determine whether the state can violate the rights of Michiganders with impunity. The case…
REGISTER: Immigrant and Civil Rights Advocates to Discuss Huge Stakes of Michigan Supreme Court Case MIRC v. Whitmer
On Monday, October 6, advocates for civil liberties, and for the rights of immigrants and food system workers, will discuss how a case before Michigan’s Supreme Court on October 8…
FarmSTAND Checkoff System “Deep Dive” to Reveal Who Benefits, Need for Reform
Food checkoff programs penalize independent producers of food by funneling money to the lobbying and trade organizations that boost the largest corporate producers, according to research featured in the latest…
Victory! Federal Court Orders Terminated USDA Farmer and Community Grants to be Reinstated
Preliminary injunction granted in lawsuit against USDA ordering restoration of wrongfully terminated grants and funding that support tree planting, growing food in underserved communities, training new farmers, and helping farmers…
USDA Grantees Terminated for ‘DEI’ Added as Plaintiffs, DOGE added as Defendant in Unlawful Cancelation Suit
Attorneys for the plaintiff nonprofit organizations in USDN v. USDA, a suit to stop illegal grant terminations by the Trump Administration, filed a First Amended Complaint late yesterday adding new…