{"id":1038,"date":"2026-03-02T20:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmstand.chee.studio\/farmstand-moves-for-public-access-to-sealed-documents-in-agri-stats-anticompetition-suit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:12:17","slug":"farmstand-moves-for-public-access-to-sealed-documents-in-agri-stats-anticompetition-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/farmstand-moves-for-public-access-to-sealed-documents-in-agri-stats-anticompetition-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"FarmSTAND Moves for Public Access to Sealed Documents in Agri Stats Anticompetition Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Group requesting further consideration of a district court\u2019s orders sealing important documents on how Big Ag firms operate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND has <a href=\"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026.03.02-Mem-ISO-Motion-for-Further-Consideration-Non-File-Stamped.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a motion<\/a> requesting further consideration of court orders that would keep important information about large meat corporations from public view. The filing comes in the<em> U.S.&nbsp;v.&nbsp;Agri Stats<\/em> case, in which the federal government and&nbsp;attorneys general&nbsp;of&nbsp;Minnesota, California, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah&nbsp;allege&nbsp;that&nbsp;agribusiness&nbsp;firms engaged in&nbsp;anticompetitive behavior&nbsp;via&nbsp;the agricultural data service Agri Stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Records currently under seal in the&nbsp;litigation&nbsp;include&nbsp;the parties\u2019 expert reports, which may&nbsp;contain&nbsp;detailed information on exactly how Agri Stats\u2019s alleged actions harmed consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026.03.02-Mem-ISO-Motion-for-Further-Consideration-Non-File-Stamped.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today\u2019s filing<\/a>,&nbsp;FarmSTAND&nbsp;writes that it is&nbsp;\u201cparticularly interested in the present case because the alleged wrongdoing is&nbsp;directly related&nbsp;to&nbsp;FarmSTAND\u2019s&nbsp;mission to address undue corporate power in the agricultural system\u201d&nbsp;and that \u201cthe parties in this case have not come close to meeting their burden&nbsp;to justify&nbsp;sealing the records at issue in their&nbsp;three most recent joint motions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FarmSTAND is committed to making the inner workings of the factory farming system visible. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/deep-dives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep Dive series<\/a> transforms key findings from FarmSTAND lawsuits against corporations and the government into resources that empower advocates, journalists, policymakers, and the public with the facts they need to take on Big Ag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe public has a right to know the details about how the biggest meat corporations may have used Agri Stats to increase their power to the detriment of consumers and of independent producers of food,\u201d said Nathan Leys, FarmSTAND Staff Attorney. \u201cForcing greater transparency will help stop the biggest meat corporations from exerting even more power over the system they dominate.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records currently under seal in the\u00a0litigation\u00a0include\u00a0the parties\u2019 expert reports, which may\u00a0contain\u00a0detailed information on exactly how Agri Stats\u2019s alleged actions harmed consumers.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[31,109,76,34],"issue":[19,21],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-anti-trust","tag-competition","tag-corporate-consolidation","tag-farmers-and-ranchers","issue-consumer-rights","issue-farmers-rural-communities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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