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Recently Shuttered USDA Program Grantees Join Suit to Restore $125M+ in Illegally Canceled Grants
LCM grantees join initial plaintiffs in case, who won a preliminary injunction restoring critical support for a fairer food system 24 organizations and local governments who had grant agreements under…
USDA Downplaying Worker Injury Toll from Increasing Meatpacking Line Speeds, Experts Say
Proposed USDA rules that would allow industrial animal ag corporations to speed up chicken, turkey, and hog slaughter and processing are based on a misreading of landmark worker safety studies, the co-lead principal investigators of those studies say in comments submitted late yesterday.
Grupos de agricultores y trabajadores agrícolas instan a la Corte Suprema a rechazar la impunidad de Roundup para Monsanto en un nuevo escrito amicus curiae
This brief, authored by fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND and signed onto by 15 organizations dedicated to the wellbeing of farmers and farmworkers, argues that a decision protecting the chemical giant from lawsuits…
FarmSTAND Moves for Public Access to Sealed Documents in Agri Stats Anticompetition Suit
Records currently under seal in the litigation include the parties’ expert reports, which may contain detailed information on exactly how Agri Stats’s alleged actions harmed consumers.
Clean Water Advocates File Suit Against Pacific Seafood Over Warrenton Pollution
Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) late yesterday filed suit over more than three years of ongoing pollution of the Columbia River at a Pacific…
FarmSTAND e Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement argumentan en contra de una ley que limita el acceso a las granjas industriales
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) and FarmSTAND argued today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit should reverse a lower court decision and protect the organization’s…
Beef Giant JBS Subjected Haitian Workers to Discriminatory Conditions at Greeley Plant, Workers Allege in New Lawsuit
A lawsuit filed today against JBS accuses the leading global meat processing company of exploiting over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant.
Michigan Supreme Court Decision in MIRC v. Whitmer Threatens the Rights of All Michiganders
"This is a sad day for the law in Michigan. The Michigan Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling today was not on the merits of whether the state is legally obligated to…
Servicios Legales de Colorado demanda a una granja del sur de Colorado por interferir con el acceso de trabajadores agrícolas a servicios
Servicios Legales de Colorado (CLS) presentó hoy una demanda contra una granja ubicada en Center, Colorado, y contra su contratista de mano de obra agrícola, por obstruir de manera ilegal…