Casos
Luchando contra la discriminación contra personas haitianas en JBS (Pierre v. JBS USA)
JBS, the largest meat company in the world, exploited over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant to boost corporate profits. Starting in late 2023,…
Haciendo cumplir el derecho de las personas trabajadoras agrícolas a recibir visitantes (Colorado Legal Services contra Southern Colorado Farms)
Colorado’s landmark 2021 Farm Worker Bill of Rights enshrined the right of agricultural workers to receive visitors at their housing, including employer-owned housing. This includes visitors like lawyers from Colorado…
Impugnación de los retrocesos en los derechos civiles en la EEOC (Cross v. EEOC)
Under the Trump Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has betrayed workers by stopping investigations into disparate-impact discrimination charges, illegally abandoning decades of civil rights precedent. Disparate impact refers…
Poniendo fin a cancelaciones ilegales de subvenciones (Urban Sustainability Directors Network c. USDA)
Trump’s USDA illegally terminated hundreds of grants to organizations across the country that counted on these funds to advance sustainability and support farmers building a fair food system. We’re suing…
Protecting Iowa’s Clean Water from Meatpacking Pollution (DWD v. Agri Star)
Clean water is essential for communities and ecosystems to thrive. Unfortunately, the dominant industrial food system degrades our nation’s waters at every step, including slaughter and processing. The Agri Star…
Stopping Big Ag Exploitation of J-1 Visa Holders (Alvarado v. Livingston)
Represented by FarmSTAND, Legal Aid of Nebraska, and Radford Scott LLP, these three Guatemalan men are suing Livingston Enterprises and Worldwide Farmers Exchange, the company that deceptively recruited them. The…
No Greenwashing Factory Farm Gas (Blumm v. Northwest Natural Gas Co.)
Utility companies shouldn’t be allowed to exploit public concern about climate change to prop up polluting factory farms. Customers of Oregon’s Northwest Natural Gas are suing the company over misleading…
Justice for Contract Growers Deceived by Cooks Venture (Barr v. Wadiak)
Agribusinesses exploit poultry contract growers to hold down costs and maximize company profits. The growers—the farmers who actually do the work of producing the birds—assume the risks of the business,…
Tackling Deceptive Climate Claims (Environmental Working Group v. Tyson)
Industrialized meat production generates tremendous volumes of climate-warming emissions at every stage of the process. Tyson, which produces about 20 percent of U.S. beef, chicken and pork, has greenhouse gas…