HSUS and other plaintiffs, which included Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, claimed the trademarks were sold for an inflated price.

A New York judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought collective bargaining rights for farm workers. “New York Farm Bureau learned today that Judge Richard McNally has granted our organization’s request to dismiss the New York Civil Liberties Union’s baseless lawsuit that sought to create collective bargaining rights for farm workers. The Court’s decision […]

Led by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, a coalition of 22 Attorneys General have filed a multi-state lawsuit to block the FCC’s rollback of net neutrality. The coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, formally commencing the lawsuit against the FCC and the federal […]

The suit seeks to reinstate GIPSA rules that prohibit major meat producers who contract with farmers from engaging in deceptive practices.

With Indiana leading the pack, 13 states have filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts saying the new voter-approved cage-free law is not fair to their farmers’ market access to the state. The law, which goes into effect in 2022, would require all pork, veal, and eggs farmed and sold in Massachusetts come from animals not confined […]

Remember this story out of Oklahoma earlier this year when a former Oklahoma Beef Council accountant pled guilty to stealing more than $2.6 million from the non-profit organization over a seven-year period? Well now the Oklahoma Beef Council is seeking to recover those embezzled funds and is suing the auditor for not catching the accountant […]

A U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of John Deere in a lawsuit filed to protect the use of the trademark green and yellow colors.

A New Jersey farmer has filed a lawsuit against the Warren County Farmers’ Fair after she said their hot air balloons frightened her livestock. In the lawsuit, Lisa Van Horn says the balloon rides during the week-long fair at the end of July scared her cattle so bad, a stampede broke out and a calf […]

Livestock and poultry farmers in 36 states can feel more secure about their privacy after a federal judge approved a settlement this week with the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council after a lawsuit challenging the EPA’s release of farmer and rancher personal information. “This lawsuit has won a major victory […]

A Chino dairy family may soon receive $48 million for most of their 58-acres of land that they claimed San Bernadino County has turned into a runway protection zone for the Chino airport. According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the lawsuit, which went into private arbitration, claimed that the county had over the past […]