Emily Ashcraft

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Judge Grants TRO, Injunction Against EPA Pesticide Rule Change

Judge Lewis J. Liman with the Southern District of New York approved the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the United States...

Third Amended Complaint Filed in Beef Antitrust Case

Plaintiffs in a consolidated cattle antitrust lawsuit filed their third amended complaint on Monday in the District of Minnesota. The 226-page redacted complaint argued that the defendants “conspired to...

Agro Dynamics Opposes Dismissal in Hemp Seizure Suit

On Monday in the Southern District of California, Agro Dynamics opposed a motion to dismiss filed by some of the defendants in a lawsuit where the company alleged that...

Tyson Waterloo Plant COVID-19 Death Suit Remanded to State...

Northern District of Iowa Judge Linda R. Reade signed an order on Monday remanding a lawsuit alleging that Tyson Foods and its managers were at fault for the deaths...

Parties Discuss Scope of Relief in Farmworker’s Request to...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a letter on Saturday on behalf of all of the defendants, specifically the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), responding to Judge Lewis J. Liman’s...

USDA Continues to Fight Injunction Against New Survey Rule

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) continued its push to pass the responsibility of completing surveys on farmworker wages to the Department of Labor (DOL) on Monday. It...