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- [Capital Press: Two Washington dairy farms settle pollution lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/capital-press-two-washington-dairy-farms-settle-pollution-lawsuit/) - Two dairy farms in Washington's Yakima Valley have settled a lawsuit alleging violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in their handling of manure.
- [Yakima Herald-Republic: Two Lower Valley dairies agree to unique environmental cleanup plan](https://food.publicjustice.net/yakima-herald-republic-two-lower-valley-dairies-agree-to-unique-environmental-cleanup-plan/) - Two Lower Valley dairies have agreed to make significant environment-conscious upgrades and embark on a groundwater cleanup project in a federal court settlement.
- [Washington State Dairies Agree to Clean Up Groundwater in Response to Lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/washington-state-dairies-agree-to-clean-up-groundwater-in-response-to-lawsuit/) - YAKIMA, WA — In a court settlement filed Friday, DBD Washington, LLC and SMD, LLC, two factory farm dairies in Yakima Valley, WA owned by Austin Jack DeCoster, agree to clean up and limit water pollution in response to a lawsuit brought by Community Association of Restoration of the Environment (CARE), Friends of Toppenish Creek, and Center for Food Safety.
- [Las Lecherías del Estado de Washington Están Acuerdan Limpiar las Aguas Subterráneas en Respuesta a una Demanda   ](https://food.publicjustice.net/las-lecherias-del-estado-de-washington-estan-acuerdan-limpiar-las-aguas-subterraneas-en-respuesta-a-una-demanda/) - YAKIMA, WA — En una conciliación judicial presentada el viernes, DBD Washington, LLC y SMD, LLC, dos granjas industriales en el Valle de Yakima, propiedad de Austin Jack DeCoster, acuerdan limpiar y limitar la contaminación del agua en respuesta a la demanda presentada por Community Association of Restoration of the Environment (CARE), Friends of Toppenish Creek, y Center for Food Safety.
- [El Sol de Yakima: Dos lecherías del valle bajo acuerdan mejoras medioambientales, limpiar aguas subterráneas](https://food.publicjustice.net/el-sol-de-yakima-dos-lecherias-del-valle-bajo-acuerdan-mejoras-medioambientales-limpiar-aguas-subterraneas/) - Dos granjas lecheras del valle bajo aceptaron realizar importantes mejoras medioambientales y embarcarse en un proyecto de limpieza de aguas subterráneas en el marco de un acuerdo alcanzado en un tribunal federal.
- [Sunnyside Sun: Washington State dairies to clean up groundwater in response to lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/sunnyside-sun-washington-state-dairies-to-clean-up-groundwater-in-response-to-lawsuit/) - Upgrades to manure management, provision of clean drinking water to residents among the many improvements in the settlement.
- [Reuters: Workers can't force safety agency to do inspections, court rules](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-workers-cant-force-safety-agency-to-do-inspections-court-rules/) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said workers cannot go to court to force the federal workplace safety regulator to act after it determines that alleged hazards do not present an "imminent danger" to employees.
- [Supreme Court Upholds California’s Proposition 12](https://food.publicjustice.net/supreme-court-upholds-californias-proposition-12/) - Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision upholding California’s Proposition 12, which limits the sale of pork products in California produced using extreme confinement. Public Justice released the following statement regarding the decision:
- [Idaho News 6: Snake River Waterkeeper files a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Simplot](https://food.publicjustice.net/idaho-news-6-snake-river-waterkeeper-files-a-clean-water-act-lawsuit-against-simplot/) - Boise-based Advocates for the West, representing the environmental advocacy group Snake River Waterkeeper, has filed a lawsuit against J.R. Simplot Company and Simplot Livestock Company claiming years of illegally polluting the waters of the Snake River. The pollution is attributed to operations from the Grand View Feedlot.
- [Progressive Farmer: J.R. Simplot Sued for CWA Violations](https://food.publicjustice.net/progressive-farmer-j-r-simplot-sued-for-cwa-violations/) - An environmental group is trying to stop an Idaho feedlot from discharging manure and other waste into the Snake River as it has without a federal discharge permit since 2012.
- [Snake River Waterkeeper Sues Simplot for Clean Water Act Violations](https://food.publicjustice.net/snake-river-waterkeeper-sues-simplot-for-clean-water-act-violations/) - Today, the environmental advocacy group Snake River Waterkeeper (SRW) filed a Clean Water Act (CWA) lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho against the J.R. Simplot Company and Simplot Livestock Company (Simplot), alleging years of unlawful pollution discharges from the Grand View Feedlot into the Snake River in violation of the CWA.
- [After Long Delay, Groups Sue EPA for Response on Factory Farm Water Pollution Rules](https://food.publicjustice.net/after-long-delay-groups-sue-epa-for-response-on-factory-farm-water-pollution-rules/) - The Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to respond to a legal petition urging the agency to strengthen clean water rules governing factory farms has prompted a broad coalition of public interest and environmental justice organizations to file a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that aims to force EPA to finally issue a formal response.
- [Politico Pro: A bad day for CAFOs](https://food.publicjustice.net/politico-pro-a-bad-day-for-cafos/) - U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Tuesday vacated a 2016 USDA rule that categorically exempted medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations from environmental reviews before receiving public funding.
- [Reuters: USDA rule exempting medium-sized factory farms from environmental scrutiny vacated](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-usda-rule-exempting-medium-sized-factory-farms-from-environmental-scrutiny-vacated/) - A federal judge on Tuesday vacated a rule that exempted medium-sized industrial livestock farms from undergoing environmental reviews before receiving government loans, after finding what she called severe problems with the rulemaking process.
- [Progressive Farmer: CAFOs Lose Environmental Exemption](https://food.publicjustice.net/progressive-farmer-cafos-lose-environmental-exemption/) - Court Vacates FSA Policy Exempting Medium-Sized CAFOs From Environmental Review
- [The American Prospect: Farmers Pay Big Ag to Lobby Against Them](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-american-prospect-farmers-pay-big-ag-to-lobby-against-them/) - The checkoff program, intended for marketing promotion but used as a slush fund for consolidated agricultural interests, is facing pressure for reform.
- [District Court Strikes Down Carveout for Medium-Sized Factory Farms](https://food.publicjustice.net/district-court-strikes-down-carveout-for-medium-sized-factory-farms/) - Today in a victory for rural community, sustainable agriculture, and animal welfare groups, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) must assess the environmental impact of medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) before extending loans to them.
- [Public Justice and Allies Secure Win in Arkansas Ag-Gag Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/public-justice-and-allies-secure-win-in-arkansas-ag-gag-law/) - For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 Media contact: Lucy Sears, lsears@publicjustice.net Public Justice and Allies Secure Win in Arkansas Ag-Gag Law On Monday, August 9, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, released its opinion on its ruling reversing a lower court’s February 2020 dismissal of a lawsuit
- [Fourth Circuit Enjoins North Carolina Ag-Gag Law, Affirming Constitutionality of Undercover Investigations and Whistleblowing](https://food.publicjustice.net/fourth-circuit-enjoins-north-carolina-ag-gag-law-affirming-constitutionality-of-undercover-investigations-and-whistleblowing/) - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit handed an important win to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Ag-Gag law, ruling that undercover investigations and whistleblowing are considered newsgathering activities protected by the First Amendment.
- [Progressive Farmer: NC 'Ag-Gag' Law Loses in Court](https://food.publicjustice.net/progressive-farmer-nc-ag-gag-law-loses-in-court/) - North Carolina's "ag-gag" law was dealt a blow on Thursday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia, ruled undercover investigations and whistleblowing are considered newsgathering activities protected by the First Amendment.
- [Courthouse News Service: Split appeals court strikes down part of North Carolina ‘ag-gag’ law](https://food.publicjustice.net/courthouse-news-service-split-appeals-court-strikes-down-part-of-north-carolina-ag-gag-law/) - A split Fourth Circuit panel on Thursday struck down part of a North Carolina law that prevented animal rights advocates from conducting undercover investigations into farming practices.
- [Indy Week: Federal Court Rules NC’s Ag-Gag Law is Unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/indy-week-federal-court-rules-ncs-ag-gag-law-is-unconstitutional/) - In a split decision the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that North Carolina’s “ag-gag law” is unconstitutional and infringes on free speech.
- [Associated Press: Appeals court pulls back on N. Carolina “ag-gag” law ruling](https://food.publicjustice.net/associated-press-appeals-court-pulls-back-on-n-carolina-ag-gag-law-ruling/) - A federal appeals court on Thursday scaled back a lower-court ruling that threw out portions of a North Carolina law designed in part to prevent undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video.
- [Washington Post: North Carolina can’t ban undercover filming inside animal farms](https://food.publicjustice.net/washington-post-north-carolina-cant-ban-undercover-filming-inside-animal-farms/) - A North Carolina law aimed at stopping investigations by animal rights activists violates constitutional free speech protections, an appellate court ruled Thursday.
- [Colorado Agribusinesses Dismiss Challenge to Workers’ Rights Statute](https://food.publicjustice.net/colorado-agribusinesses-dismiss-challenge-to-workers-rights-statute/) - In a victory for Colorado farmworkers, on Friday, February 24th, Colorado agribusinesses dismissed the case they had filed in federal court seeking to invalidate a Colorado law granting farmworkers the right to meet with essential service providers like doctors, lawyers, teachers, and consular officials. The dismissal of the suit will ensure service providers can meet with farmworkers at their homes and workplaces to continue their critical work.
- [Investigate Midwest: In first test before appeals court, important worker safety law is affirmed, with notable caveat](https://food.publicjustice.net/investigate-midwest-in-first-test-before-appeals-court-important-worker-safety-law-is-affirmed-with-notable-caveat/) - In the pandemic’s early days, employees of a Pennsylvania food processing plant believed they faced an immediate threat. Their employer, they alleged, crowded them together and didn’t provide enough masks when the federal government promoted social distancing and face coverings.
- [Bloomberg Law: Third Circuit Rejects Covid-19 Imminent Danger OSHA Claim](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-law-third-circuit-rejects-covid-19-imminent-danger-osha-claim/) - A group of meatpacking plant workers lost their bid for a court order compelling the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect them from Covid-19 at their workplace, after the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the case.
- [Law360: 3rd Circ. Says Work Safety Suits Don't Outlast OSHA Probes](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-3rd-circ-says-work-safety-suits-dont-outlast-osha-probes/) - A worker who sues an employer over dangerous job conditions must drop their lawsuit if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigates but doesn't find workplace safety violations, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, becoming the first federal appellate court to speak to whether OSH Act lawsuits can outlast agency probes.
- [Third Circuit Court Affirms Legal Tool for Worker Safety](https://food.publicjustice.net/third-circuit-court-affirms-legal-tool-for-worker-safety/) - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in Doe v. Scalia on the question of workers’ ability to sue the Occupational Safety and Health Administration when the agency failed to protect them from COVID-19. The plaintiff Justice at Work and co-counsel Public Justice, Justice at Work Pennsylvania, Towards Justice,
- [FoodPrint: How Hormel Exploited Confusion Over the Natural Label](https://food.publicjustice.net/foodprint-how-hormel-exploited-confusion-over-the-natural-label/) - Natural is a confusing term for consumers. As we explored in an episode of our podcast, “What You’re Eating,” most people don’t know what it means or if it’s a regulated term. Is it the same as organic? Does it mean animals were treated well or that food was produced without synthetic chemicals? Food companies
- [Law360: Colo. Farms Say State's Labor Rights Law Is Unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-colo-farms-say-states-labor-rights-law-is-unconstitutional/) - A group of Colorado farms and ranches challenged a bid to dismiss their suit in federal court over an access provision in the state's agricultural workers' rights law, arguing the statute flouts U.S. Supreme Court precedent and unconstitutionally restricts employers' property rights.
- [Civil Eats: Biogas Expansion May Compound Worker Risks](https://food.publicjustice.net/civil-eats-biogas-expansion-may-compound-worker-risks/) - Bob Baenziger, Jr. had made many dives in dangerous conditions over the course of his career. He was trained in the U.S. Army and had long worked diving on offshore oil rigs.
- [Fast Company: ‘All-natural’ turkey? Here’s why you might pay extra for nothing this Thanksgiving](https://food.publicjustice.net/fast-company-all-natural-turkey-heres-why-you-might-pay-extra-for-nothing-this-thanksgiving/) - Is this “natural” turkey an ethical choice, or have I been duped this Thanksgiving? That’s a perennial holiday grocery-shopping question. And now, unsealed documents in a false-advertising lawsuit, which was settled just in time for the holiday by meat-processor giant Hormel Foods, give consumers a new reason for pause, say consumer advocates who argue that
- [Vox: Sen. Cory Booker has a plan to stop taxpayer bailouts of Big Meat](https://food.publicjustice.net/vox-sen-cory-booker-has-a-plan-to-stop-taxpayer-bailouts-of-big-meat/) - The process of factory farming nearly 10 billion land animals per year is a risky business, but when something goes wrong it’s often taxpayers — not the corporations that produce America’s meat, milk, and eggs — who foot the bill.
- [Food & Power: Natural Meat Marketing Misled Consumers, Lawsuit Claims](https://food.publicjustice.net/food-power-natural-meat-marketing-misled-consumers-lawsuit-claims/) - Think twice before picking “natural” ham or turkey this Thanksgiving. Recently unsealed legal evidence from a 2016 lawsuit makes the case that meatpacker Hormel misled consumers by selling the same industrially raised animals under its Natural Choice and conventional product lines.
- [U.S. News & World Report: Hormel meat labeling case shows U.S. rules need reform -advocates](https://food.publicjustice.net/u-s-news-world-report-hormel-meat-labeling-case-shows-u-s-rules-need-reform-advocates/) - Hormel Foods' labeling of a meat product line as "natural" despite using the same hogs and production methods as its other brands shows the U.S. meat labeling system needs reforms, said consumer advocates and documents released on Tuesday from a lawsuit the company is close to settling.
- [Reuters: Hormel meat labeling case shows U.S. rules need reform -advocates](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-hormel-meat-labeling-case-shows-u-s-rules-need-reform-advocates/) - Hormel Foods' labeling of a meat product line as "natural" despite using the same hogs and production methods as its other brands shows the U.S. meat labeling system needs reforms, said consumer advocates and documents released on Tuesday from a lawsuit the company is close to settling.
- [The next Farm Bill can only be “climate-smart” if it reduces agricultural reliance on pesticides, says diverse coalition](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-next-farm-bill-can-only-be-climate-smart-if-it-reduces-agricultural-reliance-on-pesticides-says-diverse-coalition-50-organizations-send-public-letter-to-congressional-committees/) - Today, 50 organizations sent a public letter to the House Agriculture Committee and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, calling for a transformative 2023 Farm Bill. They urged the legislators to incentivize reductions in pesticide use, include provisions to protect farmworker health, and increase funding and research for organic and regenerative farming, representing fenceline communities, food system workers and farmworkers, family farmers, businesses, scientists, and environmental health and justice organizations.
- [Hormel Foods Advertises Conventional Meat as “Natural,” Newly Released Documents Show](https://food.publicjustice.net/hormel-foods-advertises-conventional-meat-as-natural-newly-released-documents-show/) - Today, the Public Justice Food Project published documents uncovered in the discovery of a false advertising lawsuit against Hormel Foods. The newly published documents and accompanying analysis reveal that the corporation exploited consumers’ desires for “green” meat by falsely promoting its “Natural Choice” product line as a healthier option, even though the animals for “Natural Choice” products were raised in the same way as for the company’s standard, factory farm-produced meats.
- [Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute](https://food.publicjustice.net/colorado-worker-group-intervenes-to-oppose-constitutional-challenge-to-states-workers-rights-statute/) - For Immediate Release: November 7, 2022 Media Contact: Lucy Sears | (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute On Monday, November 7, Colorado Legal Services and an anonymous farmworker filed a motion to intervene in order to defend the constitutionality of a Colorado statute that
- [Politico: Strange bedfellows: Why Biden is siding with the meat industry](https://food.publicjustice.net/politico-strange-bedfellows-why-biden-is-siding-with-the-meat-industry/) - The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case about livestock welfare that could have broad implications for the ability of states to regulate everything from vehicle emissions to maple syrup.
- [Washington Post: Federal court finds 3rd Iowa ag-gag law unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/washington-post-federal-court-finds-3rd-iowa-ag-gag-law-unconstitutional/) - A federal judge has struck down the third attempt by the Iowa Legislature to stop animal welfare groups from secretly filming livestock abuse, finding once again that the law passed last year violates free speech rights in the U.S. Constitution.
- [Des Moines Register: Judge strikes down 4th Iowa 'ag-gag' law in ongoing conflict over free speech vs. trespassing](https://food.publicjustice.net/des-moines-register-judge-strikes-down-4th-iowa-ag-gag-law-in-ongoing-conflict-over-free-speech-vs-trespassing/) - A federal court has once again blocked Iowa's efforts to bar animal rights activists from gaining access to commercial livestock operations.
- [Court Strikes Down Iowa Recording Ban Ag-Gag Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/court-strikes-down-iowa-recording-ban-ag-gag-law/) - The 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 speech by criminalizing undercover investigations at animal facilities, deterring the exposure of animal cruelty, unsafe working conditions, and food safety threats in such facilities.
- [Courthouse News: Federal judge strikes down latest version of Iowa ‘ag-gag’ law](https://food.publicjustice.net/courthouse-news-federal-judge-strikes-down-latest-version-of-iowa-ag-gag-law/) - A federal judge in Des Moines held Monday that the latest version of Iowa’ so-called “ag-gag” law aimed at preventing animal rights groups and journalists from video recording conditions in livestock facilities violates the First Amendment.
- [Iowa Capital Dispatch: Judge says Iowa’s third ag-gag law is unconstitutional, like previous versions](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-capital-dispatch-judge-says-iowas-third-ag-gag-law-is-unconstitutional-like-previous-versions/) - For the third time in five years, a judge has struck down the Iowa Legislature’s efforts to criminalize the use of cameras in agriculture facilities and other businesses.
- [Bloomberg Law: Appeals Court to Decide if Federal Judges Can Order OSHA to Act](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-law-appeals-court-to-decide-if-federal-judges-can-order-osha-to-act/) - A case over OSHA’s failure to cite a Pennsylvania-based meat processing plant for alleged Covid-19 health and safety violations is testing how far workers can go to address imminent dangers in the workplace.
- [Law360: Racial Bias Suit Dropped After Aid Cut For Minority Farmers](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-racial-bias-suit-dropped-after-aid-cut-for-minority-farmers/) - A group of white farmers led by Texas' agriculture commissioner has abandoned its claim that a federal loan relief program for minority farmers is racially discriminatory, after President Joe Biden — in a move that drew scorn from social justice advocates — eliminated race as a factor in distributing that assistance.
- [Reuters: Analysis: Biden debt relief plan disappoints Black farmers for avoiding race](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-analysis-biden-debt-relief-plan-disappoints-black-farmers-for-avoiding-race/) - Some Black farmers say they are disappointed by a new U.S. agriculture debt relief program that stands to save thousands of farmers from foreclosure, after the plan failed to specifically target minorities as they had hoped.
- [Investigate Midwest: Congress could beef up meatpacking oversight this fall. But obstacles to enforcement remain](https://food.publicjustice.net/investigate-midwest-congress-could-beef-up-meatpacking-oversight-this-fall-but-obstacles-to-enforcement-remain-2/) - Bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate would add lawyers in the USDA to prosecute complaints under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Experts and advocates have said the law has been weakened over the previous decades.
- [Agri-Pulse: This time, USDA will have broad latitude to aid farm debtors](https://food.publicjustice.net/agri-pulse-this-time-usda-will-have-broad-latitude-to-aid-farm-debtors/) - More than a year after courts forced the Agriculture Department to shut down a debt forgiveness program for minority farmers, Congress is set to give USDA wide open authority to aid borrowers of all races while providing additional aid to victims of past discrimination.
- [Supermarket Perimiter: District of Columbia judge denies Smithfield lawsuit dismissal](https://food.publicjustice.net/supermarket-perimiter-district-of-columbia-judge-denies-smithfield-lawsuit-dismissal/) - A superior court judge in the District of Columbia denied Smithfield Food Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the meat producer misrepresented to consumers that a US meat shortage was imminent at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020.
- [Meat + Poultry: Smithfield denied dismissal of environmental group’s lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/meat-poultry-smithfield-denied-dismissal-of-environmental-groups-lawsuit/) - A superior court judge in the District of Columbia denied Smithfield Food Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the meat producer misrepresented to consumers that a US meat shortage was imminent at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020.
- [Progressive Farmer: Smithfield COVID Claims Case Continues](https://food.publicjustice.net/progressive-farmer-smithfield-covid-claims-case-continues/) - A lawsuit that alleges Smithfield Foods Inc. misled consumers about the state of the meat supply chain and packing plant worker safety during COVID-19 will continue, as a superior court judge in Washington, D.C., denied a Smithfield motion to dismiss the case.
- [Investigate Midwest: Her foot was crushed on the job. When she asked to be compensated for lost wages, ‘they said no.’](https://food.publicjustice.net/investigate-midwest-her-foot-was-crushed-on-the-job-when-she-asked-to-be-compensated-for-lost-wages-they-said-no/) - In Michigan, workers who are undocumented and get injured on the job are being denied wage-loss benefits based “solely” on their immigration status, according to a lawsuit.
- [Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward](https://food.publicjustice.net/lawsuit-against-smithfield-for-lying-to-public-will-move-forward/) - For Immediate Release: July 26, 2022 Media Contacts: Peter Hart, phart@fwwatch.org Lucy Sears, lsears@publicjustice.net Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward Judge denies pork giant’s motion to dismiss case Smithfield Foods lost its bid to dismiss a case alleging that the meatpacking giant repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to
- [Una corte en Michigan avanza la demanda que aboga por la compensación de trabajadores indocumentados](https://food.publicjustice.net/una-corte-en-michigan-avanza-la-demanda-que-aboga-por-la-compensacion-de-trabajadores-indocumentados/) - El 28 de abril, el Tribunal de Reclamaciones del Estado de Michigan dictaminó negar la moción del demandado para una disposición sumaria en un caso relacionado con la compensación de trabajadores para inmigrantes indocumentados en Michigan. Esto permite que el caso continúe.
- [Michigan Court Advances Lawsuit Advocating for Workers’ Compensation for Undocumented Workers](https://food.publicjustice.net/michigan-court-advances-lawsuit-advocating-for-workers-compensation-for-undocumented-workers/) - Today, the State of Michigan Court of Claims ruled to deny the defendant’s motion for summary disposition in a case concerning workers’ compensation for undocumented immigrants in Michigan. This allows the case to proceed.
- [Victory for Animals and Free Speech as U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Kansas Ag-Gag Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/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 the Tenth Circuit that struck down Kansas’s “Ag-Gag” law for violating the First Amendment. The decision follows a lawsuit filed in 2018 by an Animal Legal Defense Fund-led coalition of animal, environmental, and food safety advocacy groups challenging the law’s constitutionality.
- [Texas court grants farmers of color groups to represent their own interests in debt relief case](https://food.publicjustice.net/texas-court-grants-farmers-of-color-groups-to-represent-their-own-interests-in-debt-relief-case/) - Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a motion to intervene in a case concerning debt relief for farmers of color. Public Justice filed the motion to intervene in Miller v. Vilsack on behalf of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) and Association of American Indian Farmers (AAIF).
- [Food Advocacy Groups Defend Lawsuit to Hold Smithfield Accountable for Lying to the Public at the Expense of Workers’ Lives](https://food.publicjustice.net/food-advocacy-groups-defend-lawsuit-to-hold-smithfield-accountable-for-lying-to-the-public-at-the-expense-of-workers-lives/) - Today, Public Justice and Food & Water Watch submitted their opposition brief in response to Smithfield Foods’ motion to dismiss Food & Water Watch’s case. The case alleges that Smithfield Foods has repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to protect its bottom line at the expense of its workers’ health and safety.
- [Law Street Media: Food & Water Watch Opposes Smithfield’s Motion to Dismiss in Meat Shortage and Worker Safety Case](https://food.publicjustice.net/law-street-media-food-water-watch-opposes-smithfields-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 worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [Grist: Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?](https://food.publicjustice.net/grist-is-california-giving-its-methane-digesters-too-much-credit/) - Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons.
- [The Fern: Today's Quick Hits](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fern-todays-quick-hits/) - A U.S. district court judge in Texas ruled that the National Black Farmers Association and the Association of American Indian Farmers can intervene in a lawsuit by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller to block federal debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers. (Public Justice)
- [WKAR News: MI court advances workers’ compensation lawsuit for undocumented immigrants](https://food.publicjustice.net/wkar-news-mi-court-advances-workers-compensation-lawsuit-for-undocumented-immigrants/) - A recent decision by the Michigan Court of Claims is letting a case move forward that could change the access that undocumented immigrants have to workers’ compensation benefits.
- [WorkCompCentral: Court won't dismiss complaint over benefits for undocumented workers](https://food.publicjustice.net/workcompcentral-court-wont-dismiss-complaint-over-benefits-for-undocumented-workers/) - A Michigan trial court on Friday denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging workers compensation regulators are illegally and unconstitutionally denying benefits for occupational injuries based solely on the immigration status of the injured workers.
- [Food Worker and Food & Farm Justice Organizations Support the Introduction of the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 (PAMWA) ](https://food.publicjustice.net/food-worker-and-food-farm-justice-organizations-support-the-introduction-of-the-protecting-americas-meatpacking-workers-act-of-2021-pamwa/) - Today, Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ro Khanna announced the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2021 (PAMWA). Meat and poultry processing workers--a majority of whom are people of color--are vulnerable to exploitation by the handful of massive corporations dominating the industry.
- [Bloomberg Law: Kansas Denied Supreme Court Review of ‘Ag Gag’ Law Provisions](https://food.publicjustice.net/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 Court’s review.
- [E&E News: Biden’s CEQ has a Stephen Miller problem](https://food.publicjustice.net/ee-news-bidens-ceq-has-a-stephen-miller-problem/) - Former Trump administration aide Stephen Miller is on the minds of Biden White House staffers as they work to channel federal investments toward disadvantaged communities.
- [Law360: Minority Farmer Groups Want In On COVID-19 Relief Fight](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-minority-farmer-groups-want-in-on-covid-19-relief-fight/) - A pair of minority farmers associations asked a Texas federal judge Friday to let them intervene in a fight between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and two classes of white farmers who claim they were excluded from COVID-19 relief funds allocated for minority farmers.
- [Law360: Ex-DOL Officials Urge 3rd Circ. To Side With Meatpackers](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-ex-dol-officials-urge-3rd-circ-to-side-with-meatpackers/) - A group of former senior U.S. Department of Labor officials are urging the Third Circuit to revive a suit alleging the government didn't do enough to protect meatpackers from COVID-19, arguing that the lower court made an "absurd" interpretation of the statute.
- [Wall Street Journal:  In Clampdown on U.S. Methane Emissions, Belching Cattle Get a Pass](https://food.publicjustice.net/wall-street-journal-in-clampdown-on-u-s-methane-emissions-belching-cattle-get-a-pass/) - The Biden administration is taking aggressive steps to curb the energy industry’s methane emissions, tightening pipeline regulations and spending billions of dollars to clean up abandoned coal mines and other sources of the potent greenhouse gas. Agriculture, just as big a source of methane, doesn't get the same tough treatment.
- [Law360:  'Long Road Ahead' For Tyson Workers Despite 8th Circ. Win](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-long-road-ahead-for-tyson-workers-despite-8th-circ-win/) - The Eighth Circuit recently rejected Tyson Foods' bid to litigate twin coronavirus-related wrongful death suits in federal court, but the road remains uncertain for the families of deceased workers to get their day in court as Tyson declines to say it'll end its pursuit of a federal venue.
- [The Counter: Independent cattle ranchers continue fight against national checkoff program](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-counter-independent-cattle-ranchers-continue-fight-against-national-checkoff-program/) - For 28 years, rancher Kyle Hemmert ran cattle auctions out of his sale barn near Oakley, Kansas. He had a front-row seat as the industry changed over the decades, and he didn’t like the direction it was going.
- [Reuters: Biden farm debt relief plan to exclude thousands of minority farmers](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-biden-farm-debt-relief-plan-to-exclude-thousands-of-minority-farmers/) - The latest version of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in farm debt - initially targeted at farmers of color - will exclude thousands of its originally intended recipients because of a change in loan eligibility, according to government data reviewed by Reuters.
- [Law360: Iowa Again Loses Legal Fight To Save 'Ag Gag' Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/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](https://food.publicjustice.net/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 at factory farms, slaughterhouses, and puppy mills violates the First Amendment.
- [Investigate Midwest: Former OSHA officials urge court to side with workers in case against OSHA](https://food.publicjustice.net/investigate-midwest-former-osha-officials-urge-court-to-side-with-workers-in-case-against-osha/) - In mid-2020, workers at a Pennsylvania food processing plant sued the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They needed immediate protection from COVID-19, they alleged: They hadn't been provided enough masks, and they were forced to crowd together at Maid-Rite Specialty Foods.
- [NPR: How dairy farmers are cashing in on California's push for cleaner fuel](https://food.publicjustice.net/npr-how-dairy-farmers-are-cashing-in-on-californias-push-for-cleaner-fuel/) - California is trying to cut greenhouse emissions from the state's cars and trucks, and in a controversial twist, its efforts are putting cash in the pockets of dairy farms across the country. It's the result of an odd but lucrative trade: pollution cuts on farms, in order to satisfy limits on emissions from California's roadways.
- [The Guardian: California subsidies for dairy cows’ biogas are a lose-lose, campaigners say](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-guardian-california-subsidies-for-dairy-cows-biogas-are-a-lose-lose-campaigners-say/) - A coalition of climate, environmental and animal welfare groups is calling for California to remove the huge subsidies provided to dairy farms to turn animal waste into a form of energy called biogas.
- [California regulators reject petition request to immediately initiate rulemaking to end credits for factory farm gas, despite adverse local pollution impacts](https://food.publicjustice.net/california-regulators-reject-petition-request-to-immediately-initiate-rulemaking-to-end-credits-for-factory-farm-gas-despite-adverse-local-pollution-impacts/) - Sacramento, Calif. — Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Richard Corey unilaterally rejected a petition request from a coalition of environmental justice, animal protection, and community groups to immediately initiate a rulemaking to eliminate credits for factory farm gas from one of California’s premier climate programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
- [A Passion to Serve: Gaining Access to Workers Compensation Insurance for All Michigan Farmworkers](https://food.publicjustice.net/a-passion-to-serve-public-justice-food-project-gaining-access-to-workers-compensation-insurance-for-all-michigan-farmworkers/) - A Passion to Serve host Don Kuchnicki speaks with David Muraskin, Senior Litigation Attorney with the Public Justice Food Project. During the interview we discuss the lawsuit that was recently filed in the State of Michigan to ensure undocumented workers have access to workers compensation insurance.
- [Civil Eats: Dust Is a Growing Problem. What Role Does Farmland Play?](https://food.publicjustice.net/civil-eats-dust-is-a-growing-problem-what-role-does-farmland-play/) - With a growing set of tools, scientists are digging into questions about the links between modern agriculture, drought, and rising incidents of dust storms and respiratory illness.
- [After Sponsoring Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law, Rep. DeAnn Vaught Refuses to Defend its Constitutionality](https://food.publicjustice.net/after-sponsoring-arkansass-ag-gag-law-rep-deann-vaught-refuses-to-defend-its-constitutionality/) - The Arkansas state representative and factory farm owner who sponsored the state’s Ag-Gag law stated in a court filing on Friday that she waives her right and the right of her industrial hog farm, Prayer Creek Farm, to ever bring a legal action under that law against the plaintiffs.
- [NowThis Politics: Biggest U.S. Pork Producer Allegedly Misled Consumers](https://food.publicjustice.net/nowthis-the-biggest-u-s-pork-producer-is-being-sued-for-misleading-consumers-about-meat-shortages/) - The biggest U.S. pork producer is being sued for 'misleading' consumers about meat shortages.
- [Civil Eats: Public Interest Groups Urge the EPA to Regulate Factory Farm Emissions](https://food.publicjustice.net/civil-eats-public-interest-groups-urge-the-epa-to-regulate-factory-farm-emissions/) - Since 2005, large-scale livestock operations have skirted air pollution laws under a deal with the second Bush administration. Now, advocates are petitioning the EPA to do its duty.
- [Gongwer News Service: Immigrant Rights Advocates Sue Whitmer Over Workers' Comp Denials](https://food.publicjustice.net/gongwer-news-service-immigrant-rights-advocates-sue-whitmer-over-workers-comp-denials/) - An immigrants rights group on Thursday sued Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the Court of Claims over the state's alleged denials of workers' compensation to undocumented individuals hurt on the job.
- [The Detroit News: Suit targets rules on compensation for undocumented workers injured on job](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-detroit-news-suit-targets-rules-on-compensation-for-undocumented-workers-injured-on-job/) - An advocacy group is turning to the Michigan Court of Claims to change state policies and grant pay for undocumented immigrants injured at work. The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, represented by Public Justice and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a 2003 Court of Appeals decision in Sanchez v. Eagle Alloy.
- [Grupo de Derechos de Inmigrantes presenta un litigio para Asegurar que los Trabajadores Indocumentados de Michigan Reciban Compensación por Accidentes Laborales](https://food.publicjustice.net/grupo-de-derechos-de-inmigrantes-presenta-un-litigio-para-asegurar-que-los-trabajadores-indocumentados-de-michigan-reciban-compensacion-por-accid/) - Hoy, El Centro de Derechos de Inmigrantes (“MIRC”), representados por Justicia Pública (Public Justice) y El Centro de Derecho para la Justicia Económica y Social Sugar (Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice), presentaron un litigio para asegurar que los inmigrantes indocumentados lesionados en el trabajo en Michigan reciban sueldos de compensación por accidentes laborales. El litigio, presentado en el Tribunal de Reclamaciones del Estado de Michigan contra la Gobernadora de Michigan, impugna la decisión del Tribunal de Apelaciones de Michigan de 2003 en el caso Sánchez v. Eagle Alloy, el cual deja sin responsabilidad a los empleadores y compañías aseguradoras que fallaron en compensar a los trabajadores indocumentados lesionados en el trabajo.
- [Immigrant Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Ensure Undocumented Workers Receive Workers’ Compensation in Michigan ](https://food.publicjustice.net/immigrant-rights-group-files-lawsuit-to-ensure-undocumented-workers-receive-workers-compensation-in-michigan/) - Today, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC), represented by Public Justice and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, filed a lawsuit to ensure that undocumented immigrants who are injured at work receive workers’ compensation wages in Michigan. The lawsuit, filed in the State of Michigan Court of Claims against the Governor of Michigan, challenges the Michigan Court of Appeals’ 2003 decision in Sanchez v. Eagle Alloy, which lets employers and insurance companies off the hook for failing to compensate undocumented workers injured on the job. The lawsuit states that Michigan’s continued denial of undocumented workers’ access to workers’ compensation wages contravenes Michigan Supreme Court precedent and violates due process.
- [Climate credits for factory farm gas violate civil rights, fail to achieve climate benefits, states petition submitted to CARB](https://food.publicjustice.net/climate-credits-for-factory-farm-gas-violate-civil-rights-fail-to-achieve-climate-benefits-states-petition-submitted-to-carb/) - One of California’s premier climate programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), is dramatically overstating the climate benefits of using methane gas sourced from factory farms as a transportation fuel, while illegally disregarding the disproportionate environmental and health impacts that dairy digesters inflict on low-income communities and communities of color. That is the conclusion of a petition delivered to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today by a coalition of environmental justice, animal rights and community organizations.
- [Inside Climate News: Groups Urge the EPA to Do Its Duty: Regulate Factory Farm Emissions](https://food.publicjustice.net/inside-climate-news-groups-urge-the-epa-to-do-its-duty-regulate-factory-farm-emissions/) - Advocacy organizations petition federal regulators to rescind a George W. Bush deal that shields industrial animal feeding operations from clean air laws.
- [Progressive Farmer: R-CALF Beef Checkoff Case to Continue](https://food.publicjustice.net/progressive-farmer-r-calf-beef-checkoff-case-to-continue/) - A lawsuit against USDA challenging the Beef Checkoff program will be allowed to continue after a federal court on Wednesday denied the agency's motion to dismiss.
- [Legal Petition Challenges EPA Inaction on Factory Farm Air Pollution](https://food.publicjustice.net/legal-petition-challenges-epa-inaction-on-factory-farm-air-pollution/) - As President Biden continues to promise that his administration will address the climate crisis and protect the air we breathe from industrial polluters, 24 advocacy organizations are demanding Biden’s EPA live up to that promise by doing more to protect communities from factory farms. Today, the groups filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging it to enforce federal air pollution laws against these major polluters, something the agency has refused to do for nearly two decades.
- [Grist: There’s a major gap in the new methane pledge: Agriculture](https://food.publicjustice.net/grist-theres-a-major-gap-in-the-new-methane-pledge-agriculture/) - Last week, the United States and European Union launched the most ambitious plan to date to slash global methane emissions. The Global Methane Pledge, which reportedly already has the support of at least six of the world’s 15 largest producers of the greenhouse gas, aims to slash methane emissions 30 percent by 2030. But despite it
- [Climate, Environmental Justice Groups Call US-EU Methane Reduction Commitment a Long Overdue First Step](https://food.publicjustice.net/climate-environmental-justice-groups-call-us-eu-methane-reduction-commitment-a-long-overdue-first-step/) - Today, environmental justice, rural community and environmental groups across the United States recognized the U.S. and European Union’s joint pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030 as a positive if insufficient step, while urging the Biden Administration not to follow through on mitigation efforts that rely upon false industry championed climate “solutions”. In particular, they call on the administration to use existing legal authority to require methane limits and to reject factory farm gas, branded “biogas” by Big Ag and Big Oil & Gas, as a means of reducing methane from industrial agriculture operations. Factory farm gas technology props up the factory farm system at the expense of Black, Latino, Indigenous, and white rural communities and further harms the land, air, and water across America.
- [Reuters: D.C. appeals court empowers consumer nonprofits in Hormel false ad case](https://food.publicjustice.net/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.
- [Meat + Poultry: Hormel Foods deceptive advertising lawsuit sent to trial](https://food.publicjustice.net/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 ruling sends the lawsuit to trial.
- [Appeals Court Sends Hormel “Natural Choice” Deceptive Advertising Case to Trial](https://food.publicjustice.net/hormel-deceptive-advertising/) - Today, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued a decision reviving the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s case against Hormel Foods’ “Natural Choice” advertising, and sending the matter to trial. The appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling, finding that the Animal Legal Defense Fund has standing to pursue its false advertising claims against Hormel Foods, and that those claims are not displaced by federal animal products labeling laws. The lawsuit, filed in June 2016 together with Public Justice and the Richman Law Group, alleges Hormel is misleading consumers through the advertising of its Natural Choice brand of lunch meats and bacon, in violation of the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act (DCCPPA).
- [The Pig Site: Appeals court finds Kansas ag-gag law unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-pig-site-appeals-court-finds-kansas-ag-gag-law-unconstitutional/) - Coalition of animal welfare and worker safety groups welcome the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that strikes down Kansas's "ag-gag" law on free speech grounds.
- [Appeals Court Affirms Kansas Ag-Gag Law is Unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/appeals-court-affirms-kansas-ag-gag-law-is-unconstitutional
/) - Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a ruling by a lower court striking down Kansas’s “Ag-Gag” law for violating the First Amendment. The lawsuit was filed in 2018 by a coalition of animal, environmental, and food safety advocacy groups challenging the law’s constitutionality.
- [South Dakota Public Broadcasting: "Ag-Gag" Laws Set Precedent For 8th Circuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/south-dakota-public-broadcasting-ag-gag-laws-set-precedent-for-8th-circuit/) - The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued opinions on two “Ag-Gag” laws, one out of Arkansas and the other from Iowa. Ag-gag laws attempt to keep whistleblowers and animal activists from having access to the inner workings of agricultural processing facilities. Those would include slaughterhouses and concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.
- [Law360: 8th Circ. Revives Challenge To Arkansas 'Ag Gag' Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-8th-circ-revives-challenge-to-arkansas-ag-gag-law/) - The Eighth Circuit on Monday revived animal rights organizations' and a green group's lawsuit that seeks to overturn a state law that punishes whistleblowers at industrial agricultural facilities.
- [Associated Press: Appeals court revives challenge to Arkansas ‘ag-gag’ lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/associated-press-appeals-court-revives-challenge-to-arkansas-ag-gag-lawsuit/) - A federal appeals court revived a legal challenge Monday to an Arkansas law that farm organizations have used to shield themselves from undercover investigations by animal rights groups.
- [Reuters: 8th Circuit revives challenge to Arkansas ag-gag law](https://food.publicjustice.net/reuters-8th-circuit-revives-challenge-to-arkansas-ag-gag-law/) - A divided federal appeals court on Monday reinstated a First Amendment challenge by several advocacy organizations against Arkansas’ 2017 “ag-gag” law, which authorizes farms and other businesses to sue for as much as $5,000 per day if an undercover investigator surreptitiously records operations and shares the information in a way that harms the business.
- [Law360: 9th Circ. OKs USDA Win In Clash Over Ads To Eat More Beef](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-9th-circ-oks-usda-win-in-clash-over-ads-to-eat-more-beef/) - The Ninth Circuit affirmed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's summary judgment win against independent ranchers challenging assessments on cattle sales that fund industry groups' pro-beef consumption advertisements, holding in a published opinion Tuesday the advertisements are government speech exempt from First Amendment scrutiny.
- [Advocate Capital: Public Justice Files a Lawsuit Against Smithfield Foods](https://food.publicjustice.net/advocate-capital-public-justice-files-a-lawsuit-against-smithfield-foods/) - The Food & Water Watch, represented by Public Justice, recently filed a lawsuit against Smithfield Foods. Public Justice filed the lawsuit alleging the meat processing company lied to consumers during the pandemic to protect their bottom line at the expense of their workers.
- [Law360: Tenn. Judge Blocks Biden's Race-Based Loan Relief Program](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-tenn-judge-blocks-bidens-race-based-loan-relief-program/) - A federal judge in Tennessee added to a flurry of injunctions blocking President Joe Biden's debt relief program aimed at helping Black and Native farmers recover from the pandemic, one month after a local county commissioner sued the government for discrimination.
- [Smithfield Workers Ask Court to Force Company to Protect Them From COVID-19](https://food.publicjustice.net/press-release-smithfield-workers-ask-court-to-force-company-to-protect-them-from-covid-19/) - With food chain workers being deemed “essential,” but allowed to fall ill, workers at Smithfield’s pork processing plant in Milan, Missouri are taking legal action to secure basic protective equipment and protocol changes that will stop the spread of COVID-19 in the plant and the surrounding community.
- [Meat Workers and Allies File Complaint Challenging Meat Processing Corporation Actions, Alleging Racial Discrimination in Disastrous COVID-19 Response](https://food.publicjustice.net/press-release-meat-workers-and-allies-nationwide-file-racial-discrimination-complaint-to-challenge-meat-processing-corporation-actions-alleging-racial-discrimination-in-disastrous-covid-19-response/) - A nationwide coalition filed an administrative civil rights complaint with the USDA alleging that Tyson Foods and JBS have engaged in racial discrimination prohibited by the Civil Rights Act through their workplace policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [Climate, Environmental Justice Groups Call for Biden EPA to Hold Industrial Dairy and Hog Operations Accountable and to Reject Big Ag Technology](https://food.publicjustice.net/methane-petition-press-release/) - Today, environmental justice, rural community and environmental groups across the U.S. filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, calling for the Biden EPA to regulate industrial dairy and hog operations and hold them accountable for their harmful contributions to air and climate pollution. The petition also calls on the EPA to reject the falsely driven narrative of factory farm gas branded as “biogas” by industrial agribusiness and Big Oil & Gas.
- [Public Justice urges Biden Administration to expand mandatory protections to all workers in dangerous workplaces](https://food.publicjustice.net/press-release-public-justice-urges-biden-administration-to-expand-mandatory-protections-to-all-workers-in-dangerous-workplaces/) - Public Justice is dismayed at the Biden Administration’s refusal to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard for all workers in dangerous environments. While Public Justice applauds the administration’s issuance of mandatory protections for healthcare workers, the ETS must be expanded to include all workplaces where workers are in danger of contracting the virus.
- [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](https://food.publicjustice.net/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.
- [Iowa Supreme Court Rules Against Iowa Citizens in Right to Clean Water Lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/press-release-iowa-supreme-court-rules-against-iowa-citizens-in-right-to-clean-water-lawsuit/) - Today, the Iowa Supreme Court split and ruled 4-3 against the plaintiffs in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch v. State of Iowa regarding a lawsuit against the State of Iowa for failing to protect the public use of the Raccoon River. The lawsuit focuses on a well-known water crisis in Des Moines and Polk County: the polluted Raccoon River.
- [Una Nueva Demanda Alega que Smithfield le Mintió al Público a Costa de las Vidas de los Trabajadores](https://food.publicjustice.net/comunicado-de-prensa-una-nueva-demanda-alega-que-smithfield-le-mintio-al-publico-a-costa-de-las-vidas-de-los-trabajadores/) - La organización Food & Water Watch, representada por Public Justice presentó la semana pasada una demanda ante la Corte Superior del Distrito de Columbia contra Smithfield Foods, alegando que la planta procesadora de carne multinacional le mintió repetidamente a los consumidores durante la pandemia de COVID-19 para proteger su balance final—a costa de las vidas de los trabajadores.
- [Smithfield Lied to the Public at the Expense of Workers’ Lives, New Lawsuit Alleges](https://food.publicjustice.net/press-release-smithfield-lied-to-the-public-at-the-expense-of-workers-lives-new-lawsuit-alleges/) - Last week, Food & Water Watch, represented by Public Justice, filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against Smithfield Foods, alleging that the multinational meat processing company repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic so it could protect its bottom line—at the expense of its workers’ lives.
- [Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch File Petition for Rehearing with Iowa Supreme Court](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-citizens-for-community-improvement-and-food-water-watch-file-petition-for-rehearing-with-iowa-supreme-court/) - Two weeks ago, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a split 4-3 ruling against the plaintiffs in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch v. State of Iowa. Today, the plaintiffs filed a petition for rehearing asking the Court to reconsider its decision. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch believe that Iowans have a right to clean water, that it is the duty of the legislature to protect that right, and that it is the courts’ role to always protect the constitutional rights of Iowans.
- [Law360: Biden Admin.'s Race-Based Farm Debt Relief Program Halted](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-biden-admin-s-race-based-farm-debt-relief-program-halted/) - Law360 (June 24, 2021, 7:43 PM EDT) -- A Florida federal judge said a Biden administration program providing farm loan debt relief to certain racial minority groups seems to improperly rely "on present discrimination to remedy past discrimination" in the government's farm loan program.
- [New York Times: Judge Blocks $4 Billion U.S. Debt Relief Program for Minority Farmers](https://food.publicjustice.net/new-york-times-judge-blocks-4-billion-u-s-debt-relief-program-for-minority-farmers/) - A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from making loan forgiveness payments to minority farmers as part of a $4 billion program intended to address a long history of racial injustice in American farming.
- [CNN: Advocacy group accuses Smithfield Foods of falsely warning of meat shortages](https://food.publicjustice.net/cnn-advocacy-group-accuses-smithfield-foods-of-falsely-warning-of-meat-shortages/) - New York (CNN Business) Smithfield Foods, one of the country's top meat processors, has been sued by a consumer advocacy group, which alleges that Smithfield misled the public when it raised an alarm over possible meat shortages in spring 2020.
- [Iowa Capital Dispatch: Supreme Court dismisses case demanding state do more to protect Raccoon River](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-capital-dispatch-supreme-court-dismisses-case-demanding-state-do-more-to-protect-raccoon-river/) - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by environmental groups contending the state doesn’t properly protect the Raccoon River, a major drinking water source and recreational river.
- [Des Moines Register: Iowa Supreme Court ruling halts lawsuit that challenged whether the state does enough to protect Raccoon River](https://food.publicjustice.net/des-moines-register-iowa-supreme-court-ruling-halts-lawsuit-that-challenged-whether-the-state-does-enough-to-protect-raccoon-river/) - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit that claimed the state has failed to adequately protect the public’s interest in the Raccoon River, a major water source for the Des Moines metro.
- [Bloomberg: Smithfield Sued for Profiting From Covid-Led Meat Shortage Fears](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-smithfield-sued-for-profiting-from-covid-led-meat-shortage-fears/) - A consumer advocacy group is suing Smithfield Foods Inc. for allegedly fueling fears of a meat shortage during the pandemic to boost demand and prices for its products.
- [New York Times: Smithfield Foods is sued by an advocacy group claiming it stoked fears of meat shortages.](https://food.publicjustice.net/new-york-times-smithfield-foods-is-sued-by-an-advocacy-group-claiming-it-stoked-fears-of-meat-shortages/) - Smithfield Foods was one of the first companies to warn that the country was in danger of running out of meat as coronavirus infections ripped through processing plants in April 2020 and health officials pressured the industry to halt some production to protect workers.
- [The Fence Post: The Beef Checkoff: Racing to consumers amid increasing pressures](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fence-post-the-beef-checkoff-racing-to-consumers-amid-increasing-pressures/) - Driving demand for beef, according to Cattlemen’s Beef Board CEO Greg Hanes, is the goal of the Beef Checkoff, but research and connection to consumers, he said, is the name of the game as the industry faces pressures and consumers are faced with a growing number of protein choices.
- [Bloomberg Law: OSHA Limits Long-Awaited Virus Safety Rule to Health Care](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-law-osha-limits-long-awaited-virus-safety-rule-to-health-care/) - The first nationwide emergency workplace safety rule, requiring health-care employers to protect workers against on-the-job Covid-19 infection, has been published on OSHA’s website.
- [The FERN: In Texas, a rare workers’ comp win against meatpacker JBS](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fern-in-texas-a-rare-workers-comp-win-against-meatpacker-jbs/) - A former meatpacking worker in Texas won what appears to be the first workers’ compensation settlement for contracting Covid-19 at a meat processing facility. Experts say the ruling bodes well for scores of other meat plant workers who are pursuing, or may pursue, workers’ comp benefits for contracting the virus.
- [Amarillo Globe News: Ex-JBS worker wins workers' comp case after contracting COVID-19 at plant](https://food.publicjustice.net/amarillo-globe-news-ex-jbs-worker-wins-workers-comp-case-after-contracting-covid-19-at-plant/) - A former employee of the JBS USA Inc. meatpacking plant north of Amarillo has won a rare victory in a Texas workers' compensation case originating from the COVID-19 outbreaks in the meatpacking industry in 2020.
- [E&E News: Meet the man tasked with carrying out Biden's air agenda](https://food.publicjustice.net/ee-news-meet-the-man-tasked-with-carrying-out-bidens-air-agenda/) - Ask professional acquaintances about acting EPA air chief Joe Goffman, and adjectives like "smart" are accompanied by qualifiers like "careful," "cautious" and "strategic."
- [National Hog Farmer: Legislation seeks to prevent regulation of livestock emissions](https://food.publicjustice.net/legislation-seeks-to-prevent-regulation-of-livestock-emissions/) - The "Livestock Regulatory Protection Act," introduced by Senators John Thune (R, S.D.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D, Ariz.), would prohibit the EPA from issuing permits for carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions from livestock production.
- [The FERN: DOJ: Tyson was not directed by federal government to continue pandemic production](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fern-doj-tyson-was-not-directed-by-federal-government-to-continue-pandemic-production/) - The federal government never instructed Tyson Foods to keep its plants open during the early months of the pandemic, according to the Department of Justice in a recent filing in a federal appeals case. Experts say the brief, along with others filed in the case, is a good sign for the plaintiffs, the relatives of
- [Law360: 8th Circ. Tyson Case Could Streamline COVID-19 Suits](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-8th-circ-tyson-case-could-streamline-covid-19-suits/) - A jurisdictional issue to be decided by the Eighth Circuit in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc. mishandled a COVID-19 outbreak at an Iowa plant could set a legal precedent that would streamline injury litigation over coronavirus exposures and deaths, attorneys say.
- [Food & Power: Food and Environmental Justice Groups Petition EPA to Regulate Dairy and Hog Methane](https://food.publicjustice.net/food-power-food-and-environmental-justice-groups-petition-epa-to-regulate-dairy-and-hog-methane/) - Two dozen environmental and rural advocacy groups representing over 2.4 million members recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate confined dairy and hog operations under the Clean Air Act.
- [Inside Climate News: Politicians Are Considering Paying Farmers to Store Carbon. But Some Environmental and Agriculture Groups Say It’s Greenwashing](https://food.publicjustice.net/inside-climate-news-politicians-are-considering-paying-farmers-to-store-carbon-but-some-environmental-and-agriculture-groups-say-its-greenwashing/) - A coalition of environmental, agriculture and justice groups is attempting to drum up opposition to legislation that aims to help farmers store carbon in the soil, a practice that’s become a key piece of the Biden administration’s strategy on climate change.
- [Radio Iowa: State Supreme Court hears arguments in water quality lawsuit](https://food.publicjustice.net/radio-iowa-state-supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-water-quality-lawsuit/) - The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case where the state is asking that a lawsuit by environmental groups that challenge the strategy for handling farm runoff into the Raccoon River be dismissed.
- [The National Law Review: Court Won’t Step in For OSHA in Pandemic-Plagued Meat Packing Plant](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-national-law-review-court-wont-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 force the secretary of labor to take action to address
- [The FERN: Petition calls for EPA regulation of large dairy and hog farms](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fern-petition-calls-for-epa-regulation-of-large-dairy-and-hog-farms/) - Two dozen environmental and consumer groups, including the Sierra Club and Government Accountability Project, petitioned the EPA on Tuesday to regulate large dairy and hog operations under federal air pollution laws.
- [Meat + Poultry: Groups petition EPA to regulate dairy, hog farm emissions](https://food.publicjustice.net/meat-poultry-groups-petition-epa-to-regulate-dairy-hog-farm-emissions/) - Twenty-five climate and environmental justice organizations petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from industrial dairy and hog operations and to reject gases collected at concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and used biogas.
- [Comment from Worker and Legal Team: Judge Grants OSHA Motion to Dismiss in Maid-Rite Worker Suit](https://food.publicjustice.net/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 a bathroom break away from others, and to
- [Successful Farming: Petition Calls for EPA Regulation of Large Dairy and Hog Farms](https://food.publicjustice.net/successful-farming-petition-calls-for-epa-regulation-of-large-dairy-and-hog-farms/) - Two dozen environmental and consumer groups, including the Sierra Club and Government Accountability Project, petitioned the EPA on Tuesday to regulate large dairy and hog operations under federal air pollution laws. “The EPA has the duty and authority to regulate these methane super-emitters under the Clean Air Act as part of the administration’s larger strategy to
- [Iowa PBS: Tyson Managers Fired; Water Lawsuit Challenged](https://food.publicjustice.net/tyson-managers-fired-water-lawsuit-challenged/) - In the capital city of Des Moines, oral arguments on the validity of a 2019 lawsuit on Iowa water quality were heard by the Iowa Supreme Court this week.
- [Sidney Herald: Court grants R-CALF motion in beef checkoff case for attorney fees, costs](https://food.publicjustice.net/court-grants-r-calf-motion-in-beef-checkoff-case-for-attorney-fees-costs/) - Yesterday, a U.S. district court in Montana granted R-CALF USA's motion for $145,428.08 in legal fees and $5,344.17 in costs the group incurred in procuring a preliminary injunction in its beef checkoff case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that effectively stopped the agency from unconstitutionally compelling cattle producers to fund the private speech
- [Law360: OSHA Escapes Pa. Meatpackers' COVID-19 Protocols Suit](https://food.publicjustice.net/osha-escapes-pa-meatpackers-covid-19-protocols-suit/) - A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's bid to ax a suit filed by meat processing plant workers who claimed that the agency failed to enforce COVID-19 protocols at their workplace despite receiving official complaints.
- [Law Street Media: Court Dismisses COVID-19 Lawsuit Against OSHA Regarding Meatpacking Plant](https://food.publicjustice.net/court-dismisses-covid-19-lawsuit-against-osha-regarding-meatpacking-plant/) - On Tuesday, the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Department of Labor (DOL), alleging that the governmental bodies should have done more to protect workers at Maid-Rite Specialty Foods, a meatpacking plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [Bloomberg Law: ‘No Evidence’ of Virus Litigation Wave as Businesses Seek Shield](https://food.publicjustice.net/no-evidence-of-virus-litigation-wave-as-businesses-seek-shield/) - The volume of lawsuits filed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that allege workplace safety violations—including sickness and death from lack of protective equipment, social distancing, and limiting exposure—has been far less than the onslaught predicted by pro-business groups and some politicians.
- [The Kansas City Star: Pandemic and Trump-era neglect overwhelm federal agency tasked with worker safety](https://food.publicjustice.net/pandemic-and-trump-era-neglect-overwhelm-federal-agency-tasked-with-worker-safety/) - When Smithfield was sued over conditions at their plant, the company argued the job of policing workplace safety complaints belonged to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, rather than the court system.
- [Bloomberg Law: Meatpackers Press for Covid-19 Vaccine to Protect Line Workers](https://food.publicjustice.net/meatpackers-press-for-covid-19-vaccine-to-protect-line-workers/) - Meatpacking workers and their employers are pushing to the front of the line for coronavirus vaccinations as state governments roll out their distribution plans to combat the pandemic.
- [High Plains Journal: Ranch group files brief to prevent USDA from governing beef labeling, advertising](https://food.publicjustice.net/ranch-group-files-brief-to-prevent-usda-from-governing-beef-labeling-advertising/) - R-CALF USA recently submitted a motion to file a friend-of-the-court brief and a brief to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to prevent the Federal Meat Inspection Act from being interpreted to govern both beef labeling and beef advertising, which the ranch group says would severely limit state's rights.
- [Law360: Green Groups Ask EPA To Regulate Big Farms' Air Emissions](https://food.publicjustice.net/green-groups-ask-epa-to-regulate-big-farms-air-emissions/) - Green groups on Tuesday petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating industrial hog and dairy operations under the Clean Air Act, saying the methane they produce is being inappropriately exploited as an energy source.
- [KMA Land: Iowa News Headlines Thursday, December 17, 2020](https://food.publicjustice.net/kma-land-iowa-news-headlines-thursday-december-17-2020/) - (Des Moines, IA) -- The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case where the state is asking that a lawsuit by environmental groups challenging the strategy for handling farm runoff into the Raccoon River be dismissed.
- [Iowa Public Radio: Iowa Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Water Quality Lawsuit Proceeds](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-public-radio-iowa-supreme-court-will-decide-whether-water-quality-lawsuit-proceeds/) - The Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that challenges the legislature’s voluntary approach to regulating nutrient pollution in the Raccoon River from farm runoff.
- [Des Moines Register: State argues before Iowa Supreme Court for dismissal of Raccoon River pollution suit](https://food.publicjustice.net/des-moines-register-state-argues-before-iowa-supreme-court-for-dismissal-of-raccoon-river-pollution-suit/) - Attorneys debated before the Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday a move by the state to dismiss a lawsuit by two environmental groups contending it has failed to do enough to curb pollution flowing into the Raccoon River from farms and livestock operations.
- [Associated Press: Iowa Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Water Pollution Case](https://food.publicjustice.net/associated-press-iowa-supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-water-pollution-case/) - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether to allow two groups to go to trial with a lawsuit claiming Iowa has allowed crop and hog farmers to pollute the Raccoon River, denying citizens safe water for drinking and recreation.
- [Agri-Pulse: Iowa Supreme Court hears nutrient pollution case](https://food.publicjustice.net/agri-pulse-iowa-supreme-court-hears-nutrient-pollution-case/) - Lawyers for environmental groups and the state of Iowa tangled before the state’s Supreme Court Wednesday over whether environmental groups should be allowed to proceed with their case challenging Iowa’s voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy.
- [Agri-Pulse: Iowa high court to hear arguments in water case involving ancient legal doctrine](https://food.publicjustice.net/agri-pulse-iowa-high-court-to-hear-arguments-in-water-case-involving-ancient-legal-doctrine/) - The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that seeks to require the state to adopt a mandatory nutrient reduction program in the Raccoon River watershed, which supplies drinking water for half a million Iowans.
- [Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa Supreme Court hears arguments over water quality in Raccoon River](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-capital-dispatch-iowa-supreme-court-hears-arguments-over-water-quality-in-raccoon-river/) - Environmental groups that want the state to regulate farm pollution running into waterways took their arguments to the Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Action sued the state over pollution in the Raccoon River. They argued that the voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy the state employs to fight
- [Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa’s ‘ag gag’ has stifled investigations, despite pending court challenges](https://food.publicjustice.net/iowa-capital-dispatch-iowas-ag-gag-has-stifled-investigations-despite-pending-court-challenges/) - The legality of Iowa’s controversial “ag gag” law, designed to block undercover investigations at agricultural facilities, could soon be decided by a federal judge.
- [Law360: OSHA Won't Fine Meatpacker Accused Of COVID-19 Violations](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-osha-wont-fine-meatpacker-accused-of-covid-19-violations/) - The U.S. Department of Labor's workplace safety arm will not cite a meat processing company investigated for alleged COVID-19 violations, despite a lawsuit by workers urging a Pennsylvania federal court to force the agency to make the company better protect against the disease.
- [Law360: 3 Takeaways From Smithfield's Hog Farm Stench Settlement](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-3-takeaways-from-smithfields-hog-farm-stench-settlement/) - When Smithfield Foods Inc. settled nuisance suits brought by hundreds of neighbors over the stench from hog waste lagoons, it placed a major legal threat in the rearview mirror hours after a federal appeals court gave activists fodder to push for change.
- [Law360: Pa. Meatpackers Urge Court Action Over Virus Safety Plans](https://food.publicjustice.net/law360-pa-meatpackers-urge-court-action-over-virus-safety-plans/) - A group of workers told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's failure to enforce COVID-19 protocols at a Scranton-area meat processing plant underscored the importance of court intervention to ensure worker safety at the facility.
- [Bloomberg Law: Tyson Heads for Trial on Claims It Depressed Prices for Farmers](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-law-tyson-heads-for-trial-on-claims-it-depressed-prices-for-farmers/) - Tyson Chicken Inc. must face a trial on claims that it leveraged its buying power to drive down the cost of chickens it purchased for processing at a Kentucky plant, a federal judge ruled.
- [Joint Statement on Title VI Dismissal](https://food.publicjustice.net/joint-statement-on-title-vi-dismissal/) - The complainants (Food Chain Workers Alliance, the Rural Community Workers Alliance, the HEAL Food Alliance, Forward Latino, American Friends Service Committee – Iowa, and the Idaho Organization of Resource Councils) are represented by Public Justice, Nichols Kaster PLLP, and Towards Justice, and issued a joint statement in response to the USDA's dismissal of the civil
- [Washington Post OpEd: I work at Smithfield Foods. I’m suing them over putting our lives at risk for your dinner.](https://food.publicjustice.net/washington-post-oped-i-work-at-smithfield-foods-im-suing-them-over-putting-our-lives-at-risk-for-your-dinner/) - "I believe our plant hasn’t done enough to protect us, and I fear that we could suffer the same fate as a shuttered plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., where two Smithfield employees have died of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, already."
- [FERN: Judge declares much of N.C. ag-gag law unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/fern-judge-declares-much-of-n-c-ag-gag-law-unconstitutional/) - A federal judge handed a victory late Friday to animal-welfare advocates when he declared that much of North Carolina’s ag-gag law violated the First Amendment’s free-speech provisions. The ruling could also help employees trying to expose slaughterhouses that put their workforces at risk for Covid-19 infection.
- [Bloomberg Law: Smithfield Workers Sue Over Covid-19 Exposure in Meat Plant](https://food.publicjustice.net/bloomberg-law-smithfield-workers-sue-over-covid-19-exposure-in-meat-plant/) - Smithfield Foods Inc. is being sued for allegedly failing to protect workers from coronavirus at its meat-processing plant in Milan, Mo., after at least eight workers have had to stay home after showing Covid-19 symptoms.
- [New York Times: Missouri Pork Plant Workers Say They Can’t Cover Mouths to Cough](https://food.publicjustice.net/new-york-times-missouri-pork-plant-workers-say-they-cant-cover-mouths-to-cough/) - A lawsuit filed against a Smithfield Foods plant claims it has created a public nuisance by failing to protect workers from coronavirus infection.
- [Bovine Veterinarian: Presidential Candidate Wants To Ban Feedlots](https://food.publicjustice.net/bovine-veterinarian-presidential-candidate-wants-to-ban-feedlots/) - “Our independent family farmers and ranchers are continuing to be squeezed by large, multinational corporations that, because of their buying power and size, run roughshod over the marketplace. We need to fix the broken system – that means protecting family farmers and ranchers and holding corporate integrators responsible for the harm they are causing,”
- [Delaware Public Media: Lawyer weighs in on state's agreement with Mountaire](https://food.publicjustice.net/delaware-public-media-lawyer-weighs-in-on-states-agreement-with-mountaire/) - Some advocates have concerns about an agreement reached between state environmental regulators and Mountaire Farms over wastewater violations from 2017. The agreement resolves permit violations associated with a 2017 wastewater treatment facility failure at the chicken company’s Millsboro plant over which the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) had taken the company
- [Drovers: Beef Checkoff Prevails In Crucial Court Ruling](https://food.publicjustice.net/drovers-beef-checkoff-prevails-in-crucial-court-ruling/) - A Montana magistrate judge granted summary judgement Wednesday (Jan. 29, 2020) to the government and the 15 qualified state beef councils targeted in the R-CALF vs. Sonny Perdue lawsuit. That decision will now be forwarded to the federal district court for a final ruling, a process that may take months or longer.
- [The Wisconsin State Farmer: Summary judgment issued against R-CALF in checkoff case](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-wisconsin-state-farmer-summary-judgment-issued-against-r-calf-in-checkoff-case/) - “The Magistrate held that for decades USDA had been violating producers’ rights and the Constitution by turning over money to unaccountable state beef councils."
- [Groups submit brief to Iowa Supreme Court in Clean Water Lawsuit as State seeks to “close off” judiciary to citizen groups on behalf of “Big Ag”](https://food.publicjustice.net/groups-submit-brief-to-iowa-supreme-court-in-clean-water-lawsuit/) - Yesterday, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) and Food & Water Watch (FWW) filed a brief before the Iowa Supreme Court, defending a Polk County District Court ruling that the organizations’ lawsuit against the State of Iowa to restore the Raccoon River could proceed to trial. The Supreme Court granted the State’s application for an “interlocutory
- [Agri-Pulse Daybreak: NEPA proposal could shield USDA loans](https://food.publicjustice.net/agri-pulse-daybreak-nepa-proposal-could-shield-usda-loans/) - Listen to the story here. The administration’s proposal to set deadlines for National Environmental Policy Act analyses and reduce the number of federal actions that would be subject to review also singles out a USDA program for attention. The proposal would exclude from NEPA review projects enabled by the Farm Service Agency’s farm ownership and operating loan
- [The Denver Channel: Meat packing plant broke law for 5 yrs.](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-denver-channel-meat-packing-plant-broke-law-for-5-yrs/) - Colorado regulators are now rethinking how they handled dangerous water discharges from one of the world’s largest meat packers.
- [NWI Times: Court ruling prioritizes corporations over families](https://food.publicjustice.net/nwi-times-court-ruling-prioritizes-corporations-over-families-2/)
- [Huffington Post: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation](https://food.publicjustice.net/indiana-farmers-union-joins-fight-against-noxious-8000-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.
- [How Beef Companies Use the Checkoff to Squeeze Ranchers](https://food.publicjustice.net/how-beef-companies-use-the-checkoff-to-squeeze-ranchers/) - The checkoff is a federal tax that forces ranchers to pay $1 per head every time cattle are sold, half of which is used in Montana and other states to fund the advertisements of the private, corporate run “state beef councils.” This is a form of compelled speech that is not only regressive — it’s unconstitutional.
- [Standing Up to the Chicken Industry’s Abuse of Contract Farmers](https://food.publicjustice.net/standing-up-to-the-chicken-industrys-abuse-of-contract-farmers/) - The meat industry flexes its anti-competitive market power in abusive ways. Learn how one Tyson Foods contractor featured in Super Size Me 2 is working with Public Justice to stand up to an unfair system that exploits farmers for profit.
- [Court Will Hear Case Seeking Raccoon River Restoration and Factory Farm Moratorium](https://food.publicjustice.net/court-will-hear-case-seeking-raccoon-river-restoration-and-factory-farm-moratorium/) - Late yesterday afternoon, Polk County District Court Judge Robert Hanson ordered that a lawsuit to restore the Racoon River, heavily polluted with agricultural runoff, may proceed over the objections of the State of Iowa and agencies implementing the voluntary Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy.
- [Bloomberg: Hormel Lawsuit Reveals What ‘Natural’ Meat Really Means](https://food.publicjustice.net/blomber-hormel-lawsuit-reveals-what-natural-meat-really-means/) - “It’s a massive attempt to manipulate and dupe the consumer to purchase something they have no intention to purchase,” said David Muraskin, a food project attorney at Public Justice.
- [A Sweeping Victory for Free Speech & A Stinging Defeat for Wyoming's Ag-Gag Law](https://food.publicjustice.net/a-sweeping-victory-for-free-speech-a-stinging-defeat-for-wyomings-ag-gag-law/) - After years of litigation by Public Justice, a District Court in Wyoming struck down that state’s statutes, concluding Wyoming had “no plausible reasons for the specific curtailment of speech … beyond a clear attempt to punish individuals for engaging in protected speech that at least some find unpleasant.”
- [Public Justice Leans Forward to Enforce a Right to Clean Water](https://food.publicjustice.net/public-justice-leans-forward-to-enforce-a-right-to-clean-water/) - Public Justice's Food Project, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Iowans to hold the corporate-controlled agriculture system accountable for polluting their water.
- [Pollution Online: Lawsuit Seeks To Protect South Platte River From Colorado Slaughterhouse Pollution](https://food.publicjustice.net/pollution-online-lawsuit-seeks-to-protect-south-platte-river-from-colorado-slaughterhouse-pollution/) - The Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court recently against the JBS-Swift Beef Company to stop illegal discharges of slaughterhouse pollution into Colorado’s South Platte River.
- [All Things Considered: Plaintiffs In CAFO, Right To Farm Lawsuit Want A Rehearing](https://food.publicjustice.net/wboi-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.
- [The Fern: JBS, under fire for taking Trump’s tariff bailout, is accused of polluting a Colorado river](https://food.publicjustice.net/the-fern-bs-under-fire-for-taking-trumps-tariff-bailout-is-accused-of-polluting-a-colorado-river/) - In a new lawsuit, environmental advocates say a Colorado beef-packing plant owned by JBS has been dumping polluted wastewater into a river for years.
- [Sentient Media: How Undercover Investigation of Lamb Slaughterhouse Led to Federal Prosecution](https://food.publicjustice.net/sentient-media-how-undercover-investigation-of-lamb-slaughterhouse-led-to-federal-prosecution/) - A whistleblower offered the first hidden-camera look inside a lamb slaughterhouse in the U.S. Now, the DOJ is stepping in. That’s how bad it was, yet it is all too common.
- [US News: Lawsuit Calls Arkansas 'Ag-Gag' Law Unconstitutional](https://food.publicjustice.net/us-news-lawsuit-calls-arkansas-ag-gag-law-unconstitutional/) - A legal advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit in federal court against two Arkansas agricultural businesses claiming a state law protecting the businesses from undercover investigations is unconstitutional.
- [HuffPost: Indiana Farmers Union Joins Fight Against Noxious 8,000-Hog Agribusiness Operation](https://food.publicjustice.net/huffpost-indiana-farmers-union-joins-fight-against-noxious-8000-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 massive agribusiness operation with 8,000 hogs.
- [NWI Times: Court ruling prioritizes corporations over families](https://food.publicjustice.net/nwi-times-court-ruling-prioritizes-corporations-over-families/) - In a recent decision, the Indiana Court prioritized corporate profits, unchecked pollution and industrial agriculture facilities ahead of the interests of Indiana families.
- [Public Justice Fights Unconstitutional NC “Anti-Sunshine Law”](https://food.publicjustice.net/public-justice-fights-unconstitutional-nc-anti-sunshine-law/) - Imagine your elderly family member, placed in the care of a nursing home, being abused by their caretaker. Imagine your six-month-old child spending the day at a trusted daycare, and being punished by their daycare worker – who breaks the child’s leg. Imagine a major industry in your state knowingly polluting the air you breathe, with no method
- [Jessica Culpepper: Mobilizing Lawyers in the Fight for a Better Food System](https://food.publicjustice.net/jessica-culpepper-mobilizing-lawyers-in-the-fight-for-a-better-food-system/) - Jessica Culpepper, director of the Food Project, talks about her vision for a better, healthier food system that results in healthy, empowered communities and sustainable livelihoods for farmers — and why Public Justice is helping to organize lawyers to join the fight.

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## Resource Materials

- [Consent Decree Part 2 (CARE v. DBD Washington, Et al.)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/consent-decree-part-2-care-v-dbd-washington-et-al/)
- [Amicus Brief of Worker Safety Advocates in Support of Respondents (Prop. 12) (NPPC v. Ross)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-brief-of-worker-safety-advocates-in-support-of-respondents-prop-12-nppc-v-ross/)
- [Supreme Court Opinion (Prop 12)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/supreme-court-opinion-prop-12/)
- [Complaint (SRW v Simplot)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/complaint-srw-v-simplot/)
- [Opinion (DRA v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-dra-v-usda/)
- [Motion to Dismiss (Talbott)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-dismiss-talbott/)
- [Status report (Talbott)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/status-report-talbott/)
- [Opinion (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-nc-ag-gag/)
- [Opinion (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-maid-rite/)
- [Motion to Dismiss and Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Talbott)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-dismiss-and-opposition-to-motion-for-preliminary-injunction-talbott/)
- [Motion to Intervene as Defendants (Talbott)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-intervene-as-defendants-talbott/)
- [Help with Organizing to Stop a New or Expanding CAFO](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/help-with-organizing-to-stop-a-new-or-expanding-cafo/) - Find out how the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project may be able to help your community protect itself from the damages caused by industrial livestock operations.
- [Farmland Access Legal Toolkit](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/farmland-access-legal-toolkit/) - A comprehensive resource from Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, designed to help farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland.
- [RAFI-USA's Farmers of Color Network](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rafi-usas-farmers-of-color-network/) - The Farmers of Color Network provides farmer-led technical assistance and funding for farmers of color. It hosts farm tours and gatherings to highlight ancestral knowledge and explore market solutions.
- [Farmer Resource Network Online Directory](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/farmer-resource-network-online-directory/) - Farm Aid’s online directory contains more than 750 organizations that work directly with farmers nationwide on a variety of issues.
- [Combatting Factory Farms in Your Community](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/combatting-factory-farms-in-your-community/) - This guide is an introduction to steps you can take to combat the harms of factory farms in your community as industrial-scale animal agriculture expands across the United States, resulting in more communities who suffer from existing factory farms or face industry proposals to site a new or expand an existing slaughterhouse, processing plant, feeding
- [Opinion (Iowa Ag-gag III)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-iowa-ag-gag-iii/)
- [NBFA & AAIF Motion for Summary Judgment (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nbfa-aaif-motion-for-summary-judgement-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [NBFA & AAIF Brief Supporting Motion for Summary Judgment (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nbfa-aaif-brief-supporting-motion-for-summary-judgement-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [NBFA & AAIF Appendix to Motion for Summary Judgment (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nbfa-aaif-appendix-to-motion-for-summary-judgment-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order denying Smithfield's Motion to Dismiss (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-denying-smithfields-motion-to-dismiss-fww-v-smithfield/)
- [Redacted Statement of Fact in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/redacted-statement-of-fact-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment-in-hormel/)
- [Reply supporting motion to remand (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/reply-supporting-motion-to-remand-fww-v-smithfield/)
- [Plaintiff's opposed motion to remand (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-opposed-motion-to-remand-fww-v-smithfield/)
- [Opinion and Order remanding case (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-and-order-remanding-case-fww-v-smithfield/)
- [Opposition to Smithfield's Motion to Dismiss (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opposition-to-smithfields-motion-to-dismiss-fww-v-smithfield/)
- [Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/petition-for-a-writ-of-certiorari-r-calf-usa-v-vilsack/)
- [Petition for a Writ of Certiorari Appendix (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/petition-for-a-writ-of-certiorari-appendix-r-calf-usa-v-vilsack/)
- [Reply Brief for the Petitioner (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/reply-brief-for-the-petitioner-r-calf-usa-v-vilsack/)
- [Supplemental Reply Brief for the Petitioner (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/supplemental-reply-brief-for-the-petitioner-r-calf-usa-v-vilsack/)
- [D.C. Court of Appeals opinion reversing and remanding (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/d-c-court-of-appeals-opinion-reversing-and-remanding-hormel/)
- [Plaintiff's Redacted Reply in Support of its Motion for Spoliation Sanctions (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/redacted-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-its-motion-for-spoliation-sanctions-in-hormel/)
- [Redacted Motion for Spoliation Sanctions (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/redacted-motion-for-spoliation-sanctions-in-hormel/)
- [Order Granting NBFA & AAIF Permission to Intervene (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-nbfa-aaif-permission-to-intervene-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Opinion and Order Denying Defendant's Motion for Summary Disposition (MIRC)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opinion-and-order-denying-defendants-motion-for-summary-disposition-mirc/)
- [Plaintiffs' Resistance to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-plaintiffs-resistances-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-motion-for-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Complaint (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-complaint/)
- [Brief in Support of Plaintiffs Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Plaintiffs' Cross Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-plaintiffs-cross-motion-for-a-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Motion for Summary Judgment (Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/arkansas-wildlife-federation-v-hudon-foods-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Reply in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/arkansas-wildlife-federation-v-hudson-foods-reply-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/memorandum-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Rule 34 Request for Site Inspection (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-rule-34-request-for-site-inspection/)
- [Declaration of Deborah Rosenthal in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion to Strike Inadmissible Evidence Proffered by Defendants in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-deborah-rosenthal-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-to-strike-inadmissible-evidence-proffered-by-defendants-in-support-of-their-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Motion to Strike Inadmissible Evidence Proffered by Defendants in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-strike-inadmissible-evidence-proffered-by-defendants-in-support-of-their-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss on Grounds that the Court Should Decline to Exercise Jurisdiction (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss-on-grounds-that-the-court-should-decline-to-exercise-jurisdiction/)
- [Plaintiffs' Objections to Defendants' Request for Judicial Notice (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-objections-to-defendants-request-for-judicial-notice/)
- [District Court Ruling Denying Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/district-court-ruling-denying-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Order Denying Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction and Failure to State a Claim (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-denying-defendants-motion-to-dismiss-for-lack-of-jurisdiction-and-failure-to-state-a-claim/)
- [Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-partial-summary-judgment/)
- [Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Amicus Brief (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/reporters-committee-for-freedom-of-the-press-amicus-brief/)
- [Third Amended Complaint (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/third-amended-complaint/)
- [Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-first-amended-complaint/)
- [Declaration of Leslie A. Brueckner in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Attorneys' Fees (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-leslie-a-brueckner-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-attorneys-fees/)
- [Denial of Motion to Dismiss Count Against Tyson (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/denial-of-motion-to-dismiss-count-against-tyson/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Blackwood v. N&M Dairy)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-motion-for-partial-summary-judgment/)
- [Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-35-opposition-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs-Appellees' Answering Brief (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-appellees-answering-brief/)
- [Complaint (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/hormel-complaint/)
- [Order Entering Protective Order (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-entering-protective-order/)
- [Plaintiff's Opposition to Hormel's Motion to Dismiss (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-opposition-to-hormels-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Supplemental Authority in Support of Opposition to Hormel's Motion to Dismiss (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/supplemental-authority-in-support-of-opposition-to-hormels-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Order Denying Hormel's Motion to Dismiss (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-denying-hormels-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Motion to Compel Outstanding Discovery (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-76-motion-to-compel-outstanding-discovery/)
- [Complaint (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-complaint/)
- [Plaintiff's Opposed Motion to Compel Discovery (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-opposed-motion-to-compel-discovery/)
- [Order Granting Motion to Compel Discovery (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-motion-to-compel-discovery-in-hormel/)
- [Plaintiffs' Sur-Reply to Motion to Dismiss (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-plaintiffs-surreply-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Order Denying Motion to Dismiss (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-denying-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (COOL)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/cool-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Decision (COOL)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/cool-decision/)
- [Petitioner's Reply Brief (Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/quesada-petitioners-reply-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Response to Defendant's Statement of Undisputed Material Fact in Support of Def. Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-plaintiffs-response-to-def-statement-of-undisputed-material-fact-in-support-of-def-opposition-to-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Declarations in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-declarations-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment and Opp to Def. Cross Motion (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment-and-opp-to-def-cross-motion/)
- [Reply Brief in Support of Motion For Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-reply-brief-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Statement of Undisputed Facts In Support of Motion For Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-statement-of-undisputed-facts-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Opening Brief (Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/quesada-opening-brief/)
- [Brief in support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary and Resistance to Defendant Cross Motion (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-and-resistance-to-defendant-cross-motion/)
- [Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/western-watersheds-district-court-decision-granting-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Complaint (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-1-complaint/)
- [Order on Second Motion To Dismiss (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-73-order-on-2nd-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Memorandum Order (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-memorandum-order/)
- [Plaintiff's Redacted Motion for Summary Judgment (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment-as-to-liability-in-hormel/)
- [Plaintiff's Redacted Opposition to Hormel's Opposed Motion for Summary Judgment (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-opposition-to-hormels-opposed-msj/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-its-msj-in-hormel/)
- [Reply to Motion for Entry of Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction (Iowa Ag-Gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/837/)
- [Order Granting Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/hormel-decision/)
- [Complaint (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in Support of Motion for Attorneys Fees and Expenses and Response to Defendant's Motion for Attorney Fees (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-motion-for-attorneys-fees-and-expenses-and-response-to-defendants-motion-for-attorney-fees/)
- [Memo Supporting Resistance to Motion to Dismiss (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-memo-supporting-resistance-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Notice of Intent to Sue (Mountaire)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/mountaire-notice-of-intent-to-sue/)
- [Complaint (COOL)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/cool-complaint/)
- [Opinion (Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/quesada-opinion/)
- [10th Cir. Ruling Reversing and Remanding (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/western-watersheds-10th-circuit-ruling-reversing-and-remanding/)
- [Complaint with exhibits (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/3-2020-11-2019-06-25-ecf-1-complaint-w-exhibit-pdf/)
- [Opening Brief (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-opening-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-plaintiffs-memorandum-in-opposition-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Reply Brief (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-reply-brief/)
- [Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-appeal-from-the-united-states-district-court-for-the-district-of-wyoming/)
- [Plaintiffs' Memo in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-plaintiffs-memo-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Opposition to Cross-motion for Summary Judgment (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-opposition-to-cross-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply in Support of their Cross-motion for Summary Judgment (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-their-cross-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Order on Motion for Summary Judgment (WWP v. Wyoming)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/wwp-v-wyoming-order-on-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Complaint (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/r-calf-v-vilsack-complaint/)
- [Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/r-calf-v-vilsack-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiff's Statement of Undisputed Facts in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/r-calf-v-vilsack-plaintiffs-statement-of-undisputed-facts-in-support-of-its-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Complaint (Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/lower-susquehanna-riverkeeper-v-keystone-protein-complaint/)
- [Plaintiff's Combined Opposition to Defendant & Intervenor's Motions for Summary Judgment (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-plaintiffs-combined-opposition-to-defendant-intervenors-motions-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Appellant Opening Brief (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/hormel-appellant-opening-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Combined Response to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-pltfs-combined-response-to-defs-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Sur-Reply in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-pltfs-sur-reply-in-opp-to-motion-to-dismiss-pdf/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply In Support of its Motion to Strike Portions of Defendant-Internvenors' Statement of Disputed Facts (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-its-motion-to-strike-portions-of-defendant-internvenors-statement-of-disputed-facts/)
- [Plaintiffs' Sur-Reply to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-plaintiffs-surreply-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Order Denying Motion to Dismiss (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ptd-order-denying-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-53-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Response on Summary Judgment (COOL)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/cool-plaintiffs-response-on-summary-judgment/)
- [Third Amended Complaint against Cow Palace (Yakima)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/yakima-third-amended-complaint-against-cow-palace/)
- [Motion for Summary Judgment (Yakima)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/yakima-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Yakima)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/yakima-plaintiff-reply-in-support-of-msj/)
- [Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment (Yakima)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/yakima-order-granting-in-part-msj/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plantiffs-brief-in-support-of-msj/)
- [Complaint (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-complaint/)
- [Amended Complaint (Dakota Rural Action v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nepa-amended-complaint/)
- [Complaint (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/checkoff-complaint/)
- [Amended Supplemental Pleading (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/checkoff-amended-supplemental-pleading/)
- [Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/checkoff-plaintiffs-brief-in-support-of-msj/)
- [Plaintiffs' Combined Response to Motion for Summary Judgment (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-combined-response-to-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in Support of their Motion for Summary Judgment (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plantiffs-reply-in-support-of-their-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Dakota Rural Action v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/dakota-rural-action-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Dakota Rural Action v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/dakota-rural-action-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Resistance to Application for Interlocutory Appeal (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ptd-resistance-to-application-for-interlocutory-appeal/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-61-plaintiffs-reply-iso-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Reply Brief for Appellant (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/reply-brief-for-appellant-hormel-case/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Dakota Rural Action v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/dakota-rural-action-plaintiffs-reply-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Exh. A to Motion for Summary Judgment — California's Methane Super-Emitters (Dakota Rural Action v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/dakota-rural-action-ex-a-to-motion-for-summary-judgment-californias-methane-super-emitters/)
- [Public Justice & ALDF Comment on No Added Nitrate or Nitrite Claims (Hormel)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/public-justice-aldf-comment-re-no-added-nitrate-or-nitrite-claims/)
- [Amicus brief of GOFiSH & MCFU (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-amicus-brief-gofish-mcfu/)
- [Amicus brief of Drake Law Professors (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-drake-law-professors/)
- [Plaintiffs' Opposition to Swift Motion to Dismiss (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-opposition-to-swift-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law to Amend Judgment on Preliminary Injunction (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-65-pltfs-memorandum-of-law-to-amend-jgmt-re-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Magistrate Judge's Findings of Fact and Recommendations (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-magistrate-judges-findings-of-fact-and-recommendations/)
- [Amicus Brief of Des Moines Water Works (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-des-moines-water-works/)
- [Appellees Final Brief (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-appellees-final-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Fees (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-66-pltfs-motion-for-fees/)
- [Amicus Brief of Iowa Farmers Union and Farm Aid (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-iowa-farmers-union-and-farm-aid/)
- [FOIA Complaint (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-complaint-pdf/)
- [Plaintiff's Objections to Magistrate's Findings of Fact and Recommendations (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-plaintiffs-objections-to-magistrates-findings-of-fact-and-recommendations/)
- [Opinion Granting Motion to Dismiss (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-opinion-granting-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' Proposed Sur-reply in Support of Its Opposition to Swifts' Motion to Dismiss (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-proposed-sur-reply-in-support-of-its-opposition-to-swifts-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Motion to Amend Judgment (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-68-pltfs-reply-iso-mot-to-amend-judgment/)
- [Plaintiff's Objections Defendant-Intervenors' Objections to Magistrate's Findings of Fact and Recommendations (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-plaintiffs-objections-defendant-intervenors-objections-to-magistrates-findings-of-fact-and-recommendations/)
- [District Court Memorandum Opinion (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-memorandum-opinion-district-court/)
- [Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Exclude Anderson Testimony (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-174-1-pltfs-mol-iso-mot-to-exclude-anderson-testimony/)
- [Order on Preliminary Injunction (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-73-order-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Attorney's Fees (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-79-mol-iso-pltfs-mot-for-attorneys-fees/)
- [Consent Decree (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-consent-decree-dkt-34/)
- [Consent Decree Appendix A (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-consent-decree-appdx-a/)
- [Consent Decree Appendix B (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-consent-decree-appdx-b/)
- [Consent Decree Appendix C (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-consent-decree-appdx-c/)
- [Motion to Intervene (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-sierra-club-motion-to-intervene/)
- [Proposed Complaint (Sierra Club v. Walnutdale)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/walnutdale-sierra-club-proposed-complaint/)
- [Exh. A to plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' post-hearing brief (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-ex-a-to-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-post-hearing-supplemental-brief-pdf/)
- [Exh. B to plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' post-hearing brief (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-ex-b-to-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-post-hearing-brief/)
- [Plaintiff's Motion to Allow Plaintiff Jane Doe to Use Pseudonym (RWCA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rwca-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-motion-to-allow-plaintiff-jane-doe-to-use-pseudonym/)
- [Appellants' Opening Brief (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-appellants-opening-brief/)
- [Motion for Summary Judgment (Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/lower-susquehanna-riverkeeper-v-keystone-protein-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Memorandum Opinion and Order on Motion to Dismiss (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-memorandum-opinion-and-order-re-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiff's Reply In Support of Fees (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-87-pltfs-reply-iso-fees/)
- [Plaintiffs' Response to Defendants' Statement of Undisputed Fact in Support of Defendants' Combined Resistence to Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment and Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-aldf-v-reynolds-plaintiffs-response-to-defendants-statement-of-undisputed-fact-in-support-of-defendants-combined-resistence-to-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment-and-cros/)
- [Combined Reply Brief on Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment and Resistance to Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-aldf-v-reynolds-combined-reply-brief-on-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment-and-resistance-to-defendants-cross-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiff's Response to Defendants' Statement of Undisputed Material Facts in Support of Defendant's Combined Resistance to Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment and Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-aldf-v-reynolds-plaintiffs-response-to-defendants-statement-of-undisputed-material-facts-in-support-of-defendants-combined-resistance-to-plaintiffs-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiff's Brief In Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Iowa Ag-gag II)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-ii-aldf-v-reynolds-plaintiffs-brief-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Second Suggestion of Supplemental Authority (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-second-suggestion-of-supplemental-authority/)
- [Plaintiffs' Suggestion of Supplemental Authority (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-suggestion-of-supplemental-authority/)
- [Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/lower-susquehanna-riverkeeper-v-keystone-protein-opposition-to-defendants-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Supplemental Authority (citing ALDF v. Reynolds) (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-supplemental-authority-aldf-v-reynolds/)
- [Plaintiffs' Second Supplemental Authority (citing ALDF v. Kelly) (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-second-supplemental-authority-aldf-v-kelly/)
- [Plaintiffs' Opposition to the North Carolina Farm Bureau's Motion to Intervene (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-opposition-to-the-north-carolina-farm-bureaus-motion-to-intervene/)
- [Plaintiffs' Proposed Sur-Reply in Support of Their Motion for Summary Judgment (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-proposed-sur-reply-in-support-of-their-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for Leave to File Sur-Reply (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-brief-in-support-of-motion-for-leave-to-file-sur-reply/)
- [Plaintiff's Response to Defendants' & Intervenor's Suggestion of Supplemental Authority (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-plaintiffs-response-to-defendants-intervenors-suggestion-of-supplemental-authority/)
- [Memorandum Opinion and Order (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-memorandum-opinion-and-order/)
- [Reply Brief in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment (Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/lower-susquehanna-riverkeeper-v-keystone-protein-reply-brief-in-support-of-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Exh. A to Plaintiffs' Response to Defendant's Statement of Uncontroverted Facts (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-222-1-ex-a-to-plaintiffs-response-to-defendants-statement-of-uncontroverted-facts/)
- [Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Tyson's Motion for Summary Judgment (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-222-mol-in-opp-to-tyson-msj/)
- [Memorandum Order Fees (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-dkt-88-memorandum-order-fees/)
- [Appellants' Reply Brief (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-appellants-reply-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion Challenging  FSA's Revised Production (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-pltfs-motion-challenging-fsas-revised-production/)
- [Plaintiffs' Post-Hearing Brief in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-plaintiffs-post-hearing-brief-opp-to-mtd/)
- [Appellee's Correct Brief (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/kansas-ag-gag-appellees-corrected-brief/)
- [Brief in Opposition to Motion to Strike Exhibits to Plaintiffs' Post-Hearing Brief (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-brief-in-opp-to-mts-exhibit-to-post-hearing-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply in Support of Motion Challenging FSA's Revised Production (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-pltfs-reply-iso-motion-challenging-fsas-revised-production/)
- [Appellant Brief (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-appellant-brief/)
- [Plaintiff's Motion for Attorneys' Fees (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-plaintiffs-motion-for-attorneys-fees/) - free
- [Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Attorneys' Fees (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-memorandum-of-law-in-support-of-motion-for-attorneys-fees/)
- [Affidavit (Bullard) in Support of Motion for Attorneys' Fees (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-affidavit-bullard-in-support-of-motion-for-attorneys-fees/)
- [Affidavit (Muraskin) in Support of Motion for Attorneys' Fees (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-affidavit-muraskin-in-support-of-motion-for-attorneys-fees/)
- [Complaint (USDA APA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/r-calf-v-usda-apa-challenge-dkt-01-complaint/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion to file Supplemental Complaint (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-motion-to-file-supplemental-complaint/)
- [Plaintiffs' Supplemental Complaint (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-supplemental-complaint/)
- [Order Granting Motion Challenging Deficiencies (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-order-granting-motion-challenging-deficiencies/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Amend Complaint (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-reply-brief-in-support-of-motion-to-amend-complaint/)
- [Memorandum Opinion and Order on Summary Judgment (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-memorandum-opinion-and-order/)
- [Opinion on Stiegert testimony (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-247-opinion-re-stiegert-testimony/)
- [4th Cir. opinion (McKiver v. Murphy-Brown)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/mckiver-v-murphy-brown-llc-4th-circuit-opinion/)
- [Appellant Reply Brief (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-appellant-reply-brief/)
- [Plaintiff's Motion To Compel Production of Withheld Documents (Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/jbs-plaintiffs-motion-to-compel-production-of-withheld-documents/)
- [R-CALF & Public Justice Amicus Brief (Thornton v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/thornton-v-tyson-2020-12-07-r-calf-public-justice-amicus-brief/)
- [Plaintiff's Opposition to Tyson's Motion to Reconsider the Court's Ruling on Steigert Testimony (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-256-pltfs-opp-to-tysons-motion-to-reconsider-the-courts-ruling-on-steigert-testimony/)
- [Plaintiff's Opposition to Tyson's Motion Reconsider the Court's Ruling on Summary Judgment (Morris v. Tyson)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/morris-v-tyson-dkt-255-pltfs-opp-to-tysons-motion-to-reconsider-the-courts-ruling-on-summary-jdgmt/)
- [Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendant's Motion To Dismiss (USDA APA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/r-calf-v-usda-apa-challenge-dkt-13-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defs-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Order granting Motion to Dismiss (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-49-order-granting-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [First Amended Complaint (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-21-first-amended-complaint/)
- [PETA Reply to Motion to Dismiss (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-26-peta-reply-to-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' brief in support of motion for fees (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-156-plaintiffs-brief-iso-motion-for-fees/)
- [Plaintiff-Appellees' Motion To Dismiss Farm Bureau Appeal (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-appeal-dkt-14-appellees-plaintiffs-motion-to-dismiss-farm-bureau-appeal/)
- [Plaintiffs' Motion for Fees (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-155-pltfs-motion-for-fees/)
- [Plaintiffs' Bill of Costs (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-154-pltfs-bill-of-costs/)
- [Plaintiffs' Bill of Costs (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-154-plaintiffs-bill-of-costs/)
- [Memorandum Order on Farm Bureau as Intervenor (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/nc-ag-gag-dkt-92-memorandum-order-re-farm-bureau-as-intervenor/)
- [Plaintiff's response to Defendant's suggestions of mootness (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-plaintffs-response-to-defendants-suggstions-of-mootness/)
- [Magistrate Fee Decision (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-dkt-162-magistrate-fee-decision/)
- [Opinion (Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/susquehanna-riverkeeper-v-keystone-protein-opinion/)
- [Reply in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion Challenging FSA's Withholdings Under FOIA (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-reply-in-support-of-plaintiffs-motion-challenging-fsas-withholdings-under-foia/)
- [Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/arkansas-wildlife-federation-v-hudson-foods-opposition-to-defendants-motion-for-summary-judgment/)
- [Opinion (FSA FOIA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/foia-opinion-re-foia-withholdings/)
- [Exhibit to Petition for Rehearing (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-exhibit-to-petition-for-rehearing/)
- [Petition for rehearing (Iowa PTD)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-petition-for-rehearing/)
- [9th Cir. opinion (Beef Checkoff)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/beef-checkoff-9th-circuit-opinion-affirming-summary-judgment-ruling/)
- [8th Cir. opinion (AR Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ar-ag-gag-8th-circuit-opinion-reversing-dismissal-for-lack-of-standing/)
- [8th Cir. opinion (Iowa Ag-gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/iowa-ag-gag-i-8th-circuit-opinion-reversing-dismissal-for-lack-of-standing/)
- [10th Cir. Opinion (Kansas Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/10th-cir-opinion-affirmed-kansas-ag-gag/)
- [Amicus Curiae brief (Utah Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-curiae-brief-animal-legal-defense-fund-v-herbert-utah/)
- [Complaint (Iowa Ag-gag III)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/complaint-iowa-ag-gag-iii/)
- [9th Cir. Opinion (Idaho Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/idaho-ag-gag-9th-cir-opinion/)
- [Resistance to defendants' motion to dismiss (Iowa Ag-gag III)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/resistance-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss-iowa-ag-gag-iii/)
- [Motion for summary judgment and supporting briefs (Iowa Ag-gag III)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-for-summary-judgment-and-supporting-briefs-iowa-ag-gag-iii/)
- [Memorandum Opinion and Order (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/memorandum-opinion-and-order-nc-ag-gag/)
- [Opening and Response Brief of Appellees (NC Ag-gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opening-and-response-brief-of-appellees-nc-ag-gag/)
- [Amicus Brief of NBFA and AAIF (Morton v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-brief-of-nbfa-and-aaif-morton-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Motion to Intervene as Defendants (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-intervene-as-defendants-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Amicus Brief of NBFA and AAIF (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-brief-of-nbfa-and-aaif-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Motion to Intervene as Defendants (Morton v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/motion-to-intervene-morton-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Amicus Brief of Rep. Mark Pocan, Sen. Cory A. Booker, and Four Other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives (Center for Food Safety v. Perdue)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-brief-of-rep-mark-pocan-sen-cory-a-booker-and-four-other-members-of-the-u-s-house-of-representatives-center-for-food-safety-v-perdue/)
- [Amicus Brief of Former Senior Officials of the U.S. Department of Labor (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-brief-of-former-senior-officials-of-the-u-s-department-of-labor-maid-rite/)
- [Opening Brief of Appellants (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/opening-brief-of-appellants-maid-rite/)
- [Plaintiffs' Reply Memorandum Supporting Motion for Summary Judgment (Kansas Ag-Gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/plaintiffs-reply-memorandum-supporting-motion-for-summary-judgment-kansas-ag-gag/)
- [Appellees' Brief (Kansas Ag-Gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/appellees-brief-kansas-ag-gag/)
- [Memorandum Opinion (Kansas Ag-Gag)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/memorandum-opinion-kansas-ag-gag/)
- [Complaint (MIRC)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/complaint-mirc/)
- [Petition for Rulemaking to Exclude All Fuels Derived from Biomethane from Dairy and Swine Manure from the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/factory-farm-gas-petition/)
- [Amicus brief (McKiver v. Murphy-Brown)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/mckiver-v-murphy-brown-amicus-brief/)
- [Amicus brief in support of rehearing (Indiana Right to Farm)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/indiana-right-to-farm/)
- [Amicus brief in support of Petition for Certiorari (Indiana Right to Farm)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/indiana-rtf-amicus-brief-of-indiana-farmers-union-et-al-in-support-of-petition-for-certiorari/)
- [Amicus brief (Buljic v. Tyson Foods)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/buljic-v-tyson-foods-amicus-brief/)
- [Plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' post-hearing supplemental brief (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-post-hearing-supplemental-brief-pdf/)
- [Doe declaration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-jane-doe-declaration/)
- [Emergency motion for preliminary injunction (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-emergency-motion-for-preliminary-injunction/)
- [Complaint (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-complaint/)
- [Corbo declaration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-corbo-declaration/)
- [Harrison declaration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-harrison-declaration/)
- [Fuentes declaration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-fuentes-declaration/)
- [Fritzsche declaration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-fritzsche-declaration/)
- [Order granting Smithfield motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-order-granting-smithfield-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion for time (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-for-time/)
- [Rosenthal declaration in support of plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-rosenthal-declaration-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Michaels declaration in support of plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-michaels-declaration-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Second Fuentes declaration in support of plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-2nd-fuentes-declaration-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Perry declaration in support of plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-perry-declaration-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dismiss/)
- [Second Doe declaration in support of plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-2nd-doe-affirmation-in-support-of-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-motion-to-dimiss/)
- [Plaintiffs' brief in support of motion to allow Doe to proceed under pseudonym (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-brief-in-support-of-motion-to-allow-doe-to-proceed-under-pseudonym/)
- [Plaintiffs' opposition to Smithfield's motion to dismiss (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-pltfs-opp-to-smithfield-mtd-pdf/)
- [Plaintiffs' opposition to defendants' supplemental authority (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-opposition-to-defendants-supplemental-authority/)
- [Plaintiffs' motion to reconsider and suggestions in support (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-plaintiffs-motion-to-reconsider-and-suggestions-in-support/)
- [Order denying motion for reconsideration (RCWA & Jane Doe v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield-order-denying-motion-for-reconsideration/)
- [Exhibit 1 to complaint - OSHA response to Worker complaint (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-ex-1-to-complaint-osha-response-to-worker-complaint/)
- [Complaint and emergency petition (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-complaint-and-emergency-petition/)
- [Exhibit 2 to complaint - Declaration of Alia Al-Khatib (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-ex-2-of-complaint-declaration-of-alia-al-khatib-pdf/)
- [Exhibits A through H in support of declaration of Alia Al-Khatib (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-exhibits-a-h-iso-of-alia-al-khatib-declaration-pdf/)
- [Memo in support of motion for leave to proceed under pseudonym (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-memo-iso-motion-for-leave-to-proceed-under-pseudonym/)
- [Affidavit of second additional Maid-Rite Worker (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-affidavit-of-2nd-additional-maid-rite-worker/)
- [Affidavit of first additional Maid-Rite Worker (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-affidavit-of-1st-additional-maid-rite-worker/)
- [Plaintiffs' opposition to motion to delay hearing (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-plaintiffs-opp-to-mot-to-delay-hearing/)
- [Hearing transcript (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-hearing-transcript-pdf/)
- [Declaration of Mechanic in support of post-hearing brief (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-decl-of-mechanic-iso-post-hearing-brief/)
- [Declaration of Melissa Perry, Sc.D., MHS (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-declaration-of-melissa-perry-scd-mhs/)
- [Unpublished opinions cited in post-hearing brief (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-unpublished-opinions-cited-in-post-hearing-brief/)
- [Response to letter from OSHA (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-response-to-letter-from-osha/)
- [Memorandum opinion (Maid-Rite)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/maid-rite-memorandum-opinion/)
- [Title IV Complaint (FCWA v. Tyson Foods)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/food-chain-workers-alliance-v-tyson-title-vi-complaint/)
- [Complaint (FWW v. Smithfield)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/food-water-watch-v-smithfield-complaint/)
- [Order Regarding Administrative Stay (McKinney v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-re-admin-stay-mckinney-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Denying Stay (Holman v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-denying-stay-holman-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Partially Granting Administrative Stay (Holman v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-partially-granting-admin-stay-holman-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Stay (Carpenter v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-stay-carpenter-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Stay (Joyner v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-stay-joyner-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Stay (Nuest v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-staying-case-nuest-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Stay (Faust v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/decision-and-order-granting-defendants-motion-for-a-stay-faust-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Staying Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Faust v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-staying-plaintiffs-motion-for-a-preliminary-injunction-faust-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Preliminary Injunction (Wynn v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-plaintiffs-motion-for-preliminary-injunction-wynn-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Class Certification and Preliminary Injunction (Miller v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-plaintiffs-motion-for-class-certification-and-preliminary-injunction-miller-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Order Granting Preliminary Injunction (Holman v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/order-granting-motion-for-preliminary-injunction-holman-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Declaration of Shade Marshall Lewis (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-shade-marshall-lewis-dunlap-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Declaration of Ivan Isadore Williams (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-ivan-isadore-williams-dunlap-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Declaration of John Boyd, Jr., Founder and President, National Black Farmers Association (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-john-boyd-jr/)
- [Declaration of Kara Boyd, Founder and President, Association of American Indian Farmers (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/declaration-of-kara-boyd/)
- [National Black Farmers and Association of American Indian Farmers' Proposed Amicus Curiae Brief in Opposition to Preliminary Injunction (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/amicus-curiae-in-opposition-to-preliminary-injunction-dunlap-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [Conditional Motion to Intervene as Defendants (Dunlap v. Vilsack) (ARPA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/conditional-motion-to-intervene-as-defendants-dunlap-v-vilsack-arpa/)
- [COSH Nacional: Recursos de Coronavirus para Trabajadorxs](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/cosh-nacional-recursos-de-coronavirus-para-trabajadorxs/)
- [Workers' Rights Flyer - Español](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/workers-rights-flyer-espanol/)
- [Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Food Project Law Clerks](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/fall-2021-spring-2022-food-project-law-clerks/)
- [Petition to List Industrial Dairy and Hog Operations as Source Categories Under Section 111(b)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Act](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/petition-to-list-industrial-dairy-and-hog-operations-as-source-categories-under-section-111b1a-of-the-clean-air-act/)
- [National COSH: Coronavirus Resources for Workers](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/national-cosh-coronavirus-resources-for-workers/)
- [Workers' Rights Flyer - Haitian Creole](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/workers-rights-flyer-haitian-creole/)
- [Workers' Rights Flyer - English](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/workers-rights-flyer-english/)
- [NCEJN's Environmental Justice Toolbox](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/ncejns-environmental-justice-toolbox/) - The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network's toolbox allows you to explore tools, papers, publications, and much more to support work in environmental justice.
- [Appellees' Answering Brief (Iowa Ag-Gag I)](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/appellees-answering-brief-iowa-ag-gag-i/)
- [Tactics for Attorneys with Clients Suffering Harms from Industrial Animal Agriculture](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/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.
- [How to File a FOIA Request: A Guide](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/how-to-file-a-foia-request-a-guide/) - Learn how to file a Freedom of Information Act Request using the National Whistleblower Center's online guide.
- [Preserving Your Rights  When Facing a Factory Farm Threat](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/preserving-your-rights-when-facing-a-factory-farm-threat/) - Learn what the law requires your government do to address concerns, and what your options are when facilities and government officials don’t do enough to protect your community.
- [Lives on the Line: The High Human Cost of Cheap Chicken](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/lives-on-the-line-the-high-human-cost-of-cheap-chicken/) - Oxfam America's report explores industry history and trends, documents the realities and challenges of life working on the line, and offers concrete recommendations to improve conditions for poultry workers.
- [The National Agriculture Law Center Library](https://food.publicjustice.net/resource-materials/the-national-agriculture-law-center-library/) - The National Agricultural Law Center’s library of subject-based “Reading Rooms” contains a comprehensive list of current electronic resources for an agricultural or food law topic.

## Cases

- [Yakima Factory Farms Clean Up Their Act](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/yakima-factory-farms-clean-up-their-act/) - In a landmark victory for clean water, two factory farms in Yakima, Washington agreed to clean up groundwater and limit future pollution – a result of our Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) case brought on behalf of the Community Association of Restoration of the Environment (CARE), Friends of Toppenish Creek, and Center for Food
- [Iowa Ag-Gag I (ALDF v. Reynolds)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/iowa-ag-gag-i-aldf-et-al-v-reynolds-et-al/) - Public Justice serves as co-counsel in a challenge to Iowa’s first Ag-Gag law, which criminalizes undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses. This statute made it a crime to gain access to, or employment at, such a facility under false pretenses. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the law
- [Iowa Ag-Gag II (ALDF v. Reynolds)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/iowa-ag-gag-ii-aldf-v-reynolds/) - Iowa’s second effort to prevent journalists or activists from entering livestock facilities under false pretenses to report on animal abuse was passed and signed into law just two months after U.S. District Judge James Gritzner ruled that Iowa’s law passed in 2012 violated the First Amendment. As with the previous Ag-Gag law, the new Ag-Gag
- [Ag-Gag Litigation](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/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 farm system.
- [North Carolina Ag-Gag](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/peta-et-al-v-cooper-et-al/) - Public Justice is lead counsel on behalf of a coalition of public interest groups in a constitutional challenge to North Carolina’s “Anti-Sunshine” law—a statute that, like Ag-Gag laws, allows employers and property owners to sue undercover investigators who wish to blow the whistle on unethical or illegal activities in the workplace. In a win for transparency
- [Rural Community Workers Alliance & Jane Doe v. Smithfield](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/rcwa-jane-doe-v-smithfield/) - With food chain workers deemed “essential” for the wellbeing of others at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but expected to continue working through their own illness, workers at Smithfield’s pork processing plant in Milan, Missouri took legal action to secure basic protective equipment and protocol changes and stop the spread of the disease in the
- [Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Hormel](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/animal-legal-defense-fund-v-hormel/) - Public Justice, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and the Richman Law Group filed a joint lawsuit in the District of Columbia Superior Court against Hormel Foods, alleging the company was misleading consumers through the advertising of its Natural Choice® brand of lunch meats and bacon. The suit resulted in a settlement that satisfied both parties.
- [Utah Ag-gag (Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Herbert)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/utah-ag-gag-animal-legal-defense-fund-v-herbert/) - In a victory for transparency in the food system, Public Justice successfully challenged a Utah statute that criminalized whistleblowing in the animal agricultural industry—in particular, slaughterhouses, meat processing plants, and factory farms. The law at issue—enacted by the state of Utah in 2012—made it a crime to “interfere” with any agricultural operation or facility by
- [Country-of-Origin Labeling (R-CALF USA v. USDA)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/country-of-origin-labeling-r-calf-usa-v-perdue/) - Public Justice served as lead counsel representing the nation’s largest organization of independent cattle producers, R-CALF USA, and the Cattle Producers of Washington, in a suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The suit alleged that USDA regulations enacted in 2016 that allow beef and pork to be classified as “domestic products” even when those
- [Maid-Rite (Justice at Work v. Sec. of Labor)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/justice-at-work-v-secretary-of-labor/) - Public Justice, Towards Justice, Nichols Kaster, and Justice at Work filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Pennsylvania using a never-before-tested mechanism in the Occupational Safety and Health Act, seeking to compel OSHA to enforce workplace protections in slaughterhouses. As a result of our case, workers won an important legal tool for when OSHA fails
- [Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/iowa-public-trust-doctrine-iowa-cci-fww-v-state-of-iowa/) - The Public Justice Food Project, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa claiming that the state has violated its obligation to protect the Raccoon River for the use and benefit of all Iowans. This obligation is called the Public Trust Doctrine, which requires the
- [­Debt Relief for Farmers of Color](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/debt-relief-for-farmers-of-color/) - The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 promised $4 billion in debt relief for farmers and ranchers of color to mitigate the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on a population previously excluded from government resources and support. In response to this attempt to address the unique vulnerability of farmers of color due to historic structural
- [Beef Checkoff (R-CALF USA v. Perdue)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/beef-checkoff-case-r-calf-usa-v-perdue/) - We are lead counsel on behalf of the nation’s largest organization of independent cattle producers, R-CALF USA, in a suit raising a First Amendment challenge to the administration of the Beef Checkoff program in Montana. In Montana, ranchers have to pay a $1 tax per head of cattle sold into a checkoff fund to allegedly
- [Essential Services for Colorado’s Farmworkers](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/essential-services-for-colorados-farmworkers/) - Everyone should be able to work with dignity and access resources that better their working conditions and lives. However, Colorado farmworkers’ right to access essential services where they work and live was under threat. The agribusinesses who challenged that right dismissed their lawsuit after our clients intervened. Farmworkers – like all workers – should be
- [Snake River Waterkeeper v. Simplot](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/snake-river-waterkeeper-v-simplot/) - Snake River Waterkeeper is using the Clean Water Act to hold agribusiness company Simplot accountable to the people of Idaho for dirtying the Snake River with factory farm pollution. Simplot’s Grand View Feedlot is one of the largest industrial ag operations in the country. With around 65,000 cows, Simplot’s operations contribute to massive amounts of
- [Proposition 12](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/proposition-12/) - Public Justice submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of California’s Proposition 12, which limits the sale of pork products in California produced using extreme confinement. The Supreme Court of the United States sided with the State of California and upheld the law. In our amicus brief defending California’s law, we argued
- [Yakima Valley Dairy Cases](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/yakima-valley-dairy-cases/) - In October 2012, the Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) warned four major Yakima Valley (Wash.) factory farms that they would take them to federal court unless the farms stopped contaminating local drinking water supplies with runoff from their dairy operations...
- [Deep Dive: Hormel](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/deep-dive-hormel/) - Hormel wants you to make the “Natural Choice.” Documents we’ve made public reveal how that is anything but.
- [Food & Water Watch v. Smithfield Foods](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/food-water-watch-v-smithfield-foods/) - Food & Water Watch, represented by Public Justice, filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against Smithfield Foods, alleging that the multinational meat processing company repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic so it could protect its bottom line—at the expense of its workers’ lives. COVID-19 laid bare the meat
- [Workers' Compensation for Michigan's Undocumented Workers](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/workers-compensation-for-michigans-undocumented-workers/) - Everyone should be able to work in conditions that are dignified, fair, and healthy, and getting injured at work should never mean losing your income or ability to take care of your family. However, for the past 17 years undocumented workers in Michigan who suffer serious workplace injuries have been unjustly denied workers’ compensation wages while
- [Arkansas Ag-Gag](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/arkansas-ag-gag/) - Arkansas' Ag-Gag statute is modeled after the North Carolina statute, but it makes a few tweaks to try to protect it from being overturned as unconstitutional. The Arkansas Ag-Gag law provides an employer liquidated damages against any person who “exceeds the[ir] authority” in a “nonpublic area” of “commercial property.” The statute makes clear that the
- [Western Watershed Project et al v. Peter Michael](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/western-watershed-project-et-al-v-peter-michael/) - This case is a federal constitutional challenge to two newly enacted Wyoming statutes (the “Data Laws”) that are designed to prevent the public from gathering “resource data” on public or private “open land” in the State of Wyoming. See W.S. 6-3-414 (criminal statute) and W.S. 40-26-1-1 (civil statute). These laws are close cousin to the
- [Idaho Ag-Gag](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/idaho-ag-gag/) - In recent years, more and more state legislatures have – at the urging of lobbyists representing factory farm operations and industrial food producers – taken up “Ag Gag” laws that shroud mega-farms in secrecy and make holding them accountable for pollution, unsafe working conditions and animal abuse difficult, if not impossible. At Public Justice, we
- [Indiana Right to Farm](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/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 almost completely remove neighbors’ remedies from factory farm misconduct. In
- [Petition to EPA: Industrial Agriculture is a Climate Polluter](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/methane-petition-to-epa/) - Industrial agriculture is a major driver of climate change. However, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to treat the industry like the climate polluter it is. That is why Public Justice led 25 climate, environmental justice, and rural community groups representing over 2.4 million members to file a petition urging Biden’s EPA to live up
- [Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc.](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/buljic-v-tyson-foods-inc/) - 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 in Iowa state court, alleging that Tyson completely failed to protect workers from COVID-19. The company
- [McKiver v. Murphy-Brown](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/mckiver-v-murphy-brown-llc/) - Hundreds of mostly Black and brown community members in Eastern North Carolina won a series of mass action lawsuits against Smithfield for the public nuisance caused by factory hog farms. It was a historic victory. Smithfield’s farms produce copious amounts of animal waste, burdening neighbors with horrific odors and unbreathable air. It is no accident
- [Freedom of Information Act (Public Justice Foundation et al. v. Farm Service Agency)](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/freedom-of-information-act-public-justice-foundation-et-al-v-farm-service-agency/) - Public Justice, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, and Food and Water Watch sued the Farm Service Agency for their pattern and practice of violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The government should not operate behind closed doors. That is why FOIA requires government transparency – federal agencies
- [Sierra Club v. Walnutdale](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/sierra-club-v-walnutdale/) - Everybody has the right to clean water. Yet for the neighbors of industrial agriculture operations like Walnutdale Farms in Michigan, this right is unrealized. That is why the Public Justice Food Project represented the Sierra Club in an enforcement action alongside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against Walnutdale Farms for violating a 2004 consent decree
- [Morris v. Tyson](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/morris-v-tyson/) - The Public Justice Food Project represents a mass action of poultry growers in Western Kentucky who raise poultry for Tyson, the nation’s largest poultry company. Tyson acts as an “integrator,” controlling all of the inputs used by its poultry growers—such as the birds, feed, and medical care—as well as the processing facilities and contracts for
- [Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/center-for-biological-diversity-v-swift-beef/) - Public Justice represented the Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch in a lawsuit against JBS-Swift Beef Company to stop illegal discharges of slaughterhouse pollution into Colorado’s South Platte River. The Lone Tree Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greeley receives up to 4 million gallons of wastewater each year from two slaughterhouses along the
- [Dakota Rural Action v. USDA](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/dakota-rural-action-v-usda/) - A coalition of groups representing family farmers, sustainable agriculture advocates and concerned citizens throughout the country filed suit against the United States Department of Agriculture. The suit aims to stop a USDA policy allowing industrial agriculture facilities to set up operations in communities without undergoing any review of their impact on local families or providing
- [Food Chain Workers Alliance v. Tyson Foods Title VI Complaint](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/food-chain-workers-alliance-v-tyson-foods-title-vi-complaint/) - A nationwide coalition of organizations that advocate for meat processing workers and allied groups filed an administrative civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging that in addition to being disastrous for the wellbeing of workers and for public health, two major meat processing corporations’ have engaged in racial discrimination prohibited by the
- [Quesada v. Herb Thyme Farms](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/quesada-v-herb-thyme-farms/) - In this consumer class action, the plaintiffs alleged that Herb Thyme Farms, Inc. deliberately mixed organic herbs with non-organic herbs and sold them to the public as “100% organic.” Herb Thyme argued that the consumers’ state law claims were preempted by federal law governing certification of organic products. Herb Thyme Farms had one small farm
- [Blackwood v. N&M Dairy](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/blackwood-v-nm-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 into nearby drinking water, and large volumes of toxic waste
- [Mountaire](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/mountaire/) - “For years, I’ve been trying to figure out what was the cause of my son dying of an asthma attack. They’re saying it’s going to cost millions and millions and millions of dollars to fix the problem. . . . They let it go on for too long.” That’s how our client, Gina Burton, described
- [Fact Sheets](https://food.publicjustice.net/case/fact-sheets/) - Find documents and resources produced by the Public Justice Food Project, as well as other organizations fighting for communities negatively impacted by industrial animal agriculture.

## Team Members

- [Ameesha Sampat](https://food.publicjustice.net/team/ameesha-sampat/) - Ameesha Sampat, Food Project Organizing Director, is responsible developing and overseeing the Food Project’s organizing and outreach strategies. She joined Public Justice’s Washington, D.C. office in October of 2017. Prior to joining Public Justice, Ameesha managed digital strategies at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, where she implemented campaigns around Advancing Justice | AAJC’s political,
- [Surbhi Sarang](https://food.publicjustice.net/team/surbhi-sarang/) - Surbhi Sarang (she/her) joined Public Justice's Food Project as a staff attorney in 2022. Before joining Public Justice, Surbhi worked on food and agricultural policy as an Associate Attorney at Earthjustice with the Sustainable Food & Farming program. Surbhi has spent her career working on environmental issues. Previously, she fought for stronger climate and clean
- [Jessica Culpepper](https://food.publicjustice.net/team/jessica-culpepper/) - Jessica Culpepper is Director of Public Justice's Food Project. Before joining Public Justice, Jessica was a Barker Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Humane Society of the United States in the Farm Animal Welfare Division. There she worked primarily on fighting pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and advocating for federal and state policy reform to
- [David Muraskin](https://food.publicjustice.net/team/david-muraskin/) - David S. Muraskin is a Food Project Senior Attorney with Public Justice in Washington, D.C. He focuses on impact litigation to promote sustainable alternatives to the industrial animal agriculture system. His docket consists of constitutional, consumer, worker, and environmental cases. Of particular note, he is lead counsel in two of the “Ag-gag” cases—a series of
- [Lisa Reed](https://food.publicjustice.net/team/lisa-reed/) - Lisa Reed joined Public Justice in 2019 as the Food Project paralegal, supporting the Food Project in all aspects of their work. Before joining Public Justice, Lisa worked as a litigation and government contracts paralegal. She received her Master’s Degree in Political Science from Boston College.

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