PORTLAND — Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC) intend to sue a Pacific Bio Products facility over more than three years of ongoing pollution of the Columbia River at its Warrenton, Oregon facility. Pacific Bio Products - Warrenton is owned by...
Read More“When government officials act unconstitutionally, they can be held accountable,” said David Muraskin, an attorney with agricultural law firm FarmSTAND, representing MIRC in the case. ...
Read MoreToday the Michigan Supreme Court heard oral argument in MIRC v. Whitmer, a case that will determine whether the state can violate the rights of Michiganders with impunity. The case before the Court is a challenge brought by the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center to the state’s...
Read More“Our hope is that we immediately go from the Court of Appeals to the trial court, the Court of Claims, to get the merits decided and then can, hopefully, vindicate the rights of undocumented workers which then would have to proceed back up. But with...
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American agriculture relies on credit as much as it does seeds, soil, rain, and sun. Without credit, farmers cannot invest in tractors, livestock, or new irrigation systems. They may not survive a hard year of low prices or bad weather. But agricultural credit has never...
Read More“That would mean that when the governor has a policy of any unconstitutional conduct, including this one, the fact that she got away with it for a year would keep anyone from ever going to court,” Muraskin said. ...
Read MoreOn Monday, October 6, advocates for civil liberties, and for the rights of immigrants and food system workers, will discuss how a case before Michigan’s Supreme Court on October 8 will determine whether the state can violate the rights of Michiganders with impunity. ...
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At FarmSTAND, we’re optimists. That doesn’t mean we have Pollyannaish hope. It means we lean into the hard work of making tangible change in our food system day by day, person by person, community by community — even when the impacts of our work may...
Read More“'There’s something malicious about calling it a cultural exchange program,' said Amal Bouhabib, a lawyer who has represented J-1 visa workers, 'where people think they’ll be learning and experiencing American society, and then making them work for cheap in dangerous and physically hard circumstances.'”...
Read More"The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is represented by John Philo of the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice and David S. Muraskin of FarmSTAND."...
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