The biggest polluters increasingly use SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP to evade legal accountability...
Read MoreDavid Samuel Muraskin, an attorney with the Washington, D.C.-based FarmSTAND representing the plaintiffs, told Courthouse News the ruling enables the state to “hide businesses’ misconduct and suppress civil disobedience if the government simply asserts it is seeking to protect private property.” “Until the legislature has the...
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Read More Case: Iowa Ag-Gag II (ALDF v. Reynolds)...
Read More Case: North Carolina Ag-GagSCOTUS upheld a legal victory for advocates who argued a 2015 NC law aimed to punish undercover recording at farms and other businesses restricted whistleblowing....
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has rejected North Carolina’s appeal in a dispute with animal rights groups over a law aimed at preventing undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video...
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Read More Case: North Carolina Ag-GagThe U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled Iowa’s latest Ag-Gag law is unconstitutional, holding that the law — which created a new crime of trespassing to engage in video and audio recording — violates the First Amendment. The law gagged free...
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