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April 15, 2021 In News, Press Release

A Full Month After Emergency Temporary Standard Deadline, Public Justice Urges the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to Protect Workers from COVID-19 by Issuing an ETS

More than a year into the pandemic, workers are still dying from COVID-19. Yet the Occupational Safety and Health Administration refuses to protect workers from the virus....

April 14, 2021 In Cases

Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) filed an amicus brief in support of meatpacking workers who died from contracting COVID-19 at a Tyson slaughterhouse in Waterloo, Iowa (Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc. and Fernandez v. Tyson Foods, Inc.). The two wrongful death lawsuits were filed...

April 14, 2021 In Resource Materials

Opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods)

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April 12, 2021 In Resource Materials

Amicus brief (Buljic v. Tyson Foods)

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Read More Case: Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

April 8, 2021 In News

The National Law Review: Court Won’t Step in For OSHA in Pandemic-Plagued Meat Packing Plant

On March 30, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed the complaint a group of meat packing plant workers filed last summer against then Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The complaint sought to...

March 30, 2021 In Resource Materials

Memorandum opinion (Maid-Rite)

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Read More Case: Maid-Rite (Justice at Work v. Sec. of Labor)

March 30, 2021 In News

Comment from Worker and Legal Team: Judge Grants OSHA Motion to Dismiss in Maid-Rite Worker Suit

Link to ruling: Maid-Rite-Dkt-59-Memorandum-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss-Motion-to-Strike.pdf (publicjustice.net) Statement from Jane Doe II, a plaintiff in the lawsuit: “It is bad enough to be treated as inhuman by your employer during a pandemic – to work along a crowded processing line at breakneck speed, to have no room to take...

March 21, 2021 In News

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A Full Month After Emergency Temporary Standard Deadline, Public Justice Urges the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to Protect Workers from COVID-19 by Issuing an ETS

Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

Opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods)

Amicus brief (Buljic v. Tyson Foods)

The National Law Review: Court Won’t Step in For OSHA in Pandemic-Plagued Meat Packing Plant

Memorandum opinion (Maid-Rite)

Comment from Worker and Legal Team: Judge Grants OSHA Motion to Dismiss in Maid-Rite Worker Suit

The Kansas City Star: Pandemic and Trump-era neglect overwhelm federal agency tasked with worker safety

Opinion (Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)

Plaintiff’s response to Defendant’s suggestions of mootness (Maid-Rite)

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