Consumer Rights
US News: Lawsuit Calls Arkansas ‘Ag-Gag’ Law Unconstitutional
A legal advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit in federal court against two Arkansas agricultural businesses claiming a state law protecting the businesses from undercover investigations is unconstitutional.
Sentient Media: How Undercover Investigation of Lamb Slaughterhouse Led to Federal Prosecution
A whistleblower offered the first hidden-camera look inside a lamb slaughterhouse in the U.S. Now, the DOJ is stepping in. That’s how bad it was, yet it is all too…
Western Watershed Project et al v. Peter Michael
This case is a federal constitutional challenge to two newly enacted Wyoming statutes (the “Data Laws”) that are designed to prevent the public from gathering “resource data” on public or…
North Carolina Ag-Gag
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) is lead counsel on behalf of a coalition of public interest groups in a constitutional challenge to North Carolina’s “Anti-Sunshine” law—a statute…
Idaho Ag-Gag
In recent years, more and more state legislatures have – at the urging of lobbyists representing factory farm operations and industrial food producers – taken up “Ag Gag” laws that…
Bloomberg: Hormel Lawsuit Reveals What ‘Natural’ Meat Really Means
“It’s a massive attempt to manipulate and dupe the consumer to purchase something they have no intention to purchase,” said David Muraskin, a food project attorney at Public Justice.
A Sweeping Victory for Free Speech & A Stinging Defeat for Wyoming’s Ag-Gag Law
After years of litigation by Public Justice, a District Court in Wyoming struck down that state’s statutes, concluding Wyoming had “no plausible reasons for the specific curtailment of speech … beyond a…
Country-of-Origin Labeling (R-CALF USA v. USDA)
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) served as lead counsel representing the nation’s largest organization of independent cattle producers, R-CALF USA, and the Cattle Producers of Washington, in…
Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms
In this consumer class action, the plaintiffs alleged that Herb Thyme Farms, Inc. deliberately mixed organic herbs with non-organic herbs and sold them to the public as “100% organic.” Herb…