August 23, 2019
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Plaintiffs’ Sur-Reply in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (AR Ag-gag)
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August 16, 2019
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Huffington Post: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation
Indiana’s Right to Farm Act essentially strips independent farmers and rural residents of any sort of redress against polluting concentrated animal feeding operations....
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August 16, 2019
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HuffPost: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation
The Indiana Farmers Union, with the support of the farmers union as well as Family Farm Action, Public Justice and Food & Water Watch, has filed a friend of the court brief to petition the state’s top court to reconsider a lawsuit by homeowners against a...
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August 5, 2019
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Plaintiffs’ Combined Response to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (AR Ag-gag)
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July 15, 2019
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Amicus brief (McKiver v. Murphy-Brown)
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Read More Case: Stopping Big Ag Exploitation of J-1 Visa Holders (Alvarado v. Livingston)McKiver v. Murphy-Brown
May 30, 2019
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Cases
Indiana Right to Farm
Like many other states, Indiana has a “Right-to-Farm” statute, meant to codify the coming to the nuisance doctrine—so city-dwellers cannot move to rural lands and demand farms change their operations. Corporate agribusiness has, however, been pushing efforts to expand the scope of these laws to...
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May 30, 2019
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Amicus brief in support of rehearing (Indiana Right to Farm)
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May 29, 2019
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Blackwood v. N&M Dairy
N&M Dairy was a multi-thousand cow dairy that the dumped millions of gallons of waste produced annually in surrounding open fields and earthen lagoons. The government and N&M Dairy consultants themselves warned N&M that its actions were killing crops and poisoning groundwater. Toxic nitrates seeped...
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May 28, 2019
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Tactics for Attorneys with Clients Suffering Harms from Industrial Animal Agriculture
Use this document to help screen and evaluate cases against potential harms from new and expanding factory farms, slaughterhouses, and processing plants....
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May 24, 2019
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All Things Considered: Plaintiffs In CAFO, Right To Farm Lawsuit Want A Rehearing
Two Hendricks County couples are petitioning the Indiana Court of Appeals to rehear their case against a neighboring farm with 8,000 hogs. They say the smell from the confined animal feeding operation or CAFO is making it difficult for them to eat or sleep....
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