Consumer Rights
Law Street Media: Food & Water Watch Opposes Smithfield’s Motion to Dismiss in Meat Shortage and Worker Safety Case
Monday marked the filing of an opposition brief by Food & Water Watch (FWW) in its ongoing litigation against Smithfield Foods over the company’s purported lies about meat shortage and…
Victory for Animals and Free Speech as U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Kansas Ag-Gag Law
In a major victory for animals, workers, and transparency in the animal agriculture industry, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
Bloomberg Law: Kansas Denied Supreme Court Review of ‘Ag Gag’ Law Provisions
A lower court’s decision to toss certain parts of Kansas’ law that prevents animal rights and food safety groups from using deception to investigate agricultural facilities won’t face the Supreme…
Law360: Iowa Again Loses Legal Fight To Save ‘Ag Gag’ Law
An Iowa federal judge on Monday ruled that a state law aimed at preventing animal rights activists from filming farming practices violates the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
Court Strikes Down Second Iowa Ag-Gag Law
Today the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa held unconstitutional Iowa’s second Ag-Gag law, also known as Iowa Ag-Gag 2.0, holding that the law criminalizing undercover investigations…
NowThis Politics: Biggest U.S. Pork Producer Allegedly Misled Consumers
The biggest U.S. pork producer is being sued for ‘misleading’ consumers about meat shortages.
Ag-Gag Litigation
A just, healthy, and thriving food system requires transparency. Public Justice engages in litigation to strike down the Ag-Gag laws that penalize whistleblowers who expose the truth about the factory…
Meat + Poultry: Hormel Foods deceptive advertising lawsuit sent to trial
The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) can pursue claims of false advertising against Hormel Foods Corp., the US Court of Appeals – DC Circuit ruled on Sept. 2. The latest…
Reuters: D.C. appeals court empowers consumer nonprofits in Hormel false ad case
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals just pinned a sheriff’s badge on consumer nonprofits itching to go after corporations engaged in deceptive advertising.