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Hamilton Growers to Pay $500,000 to Settle EEOC Race/National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit

ATLANTA - Hamilton Growers, Inc., doing business as Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable, Inc., an agricultural farm in Norman Park, Ga., has agreed to pay $500,000 to a class of American seasonal workers - many of them...more

Appellate Court Holds That Regional Water Quality Control Board Approval Of Discharge Permit For Dairies Fails To Satisfy...

In a decision filed on November 6, 2012, the Third District Court of Appeal held that the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (“Regional Water Board”) failed to comply with the State’s anti-degradation policy...more

Argument Report: Ex Post, Ex Ante and the Right To Farm

Our reports on the oral arguments of the Illinois Supreme Court's September term continue with Toftoy v. Rosenwinkel. Toftoy is an interesting case because it presents a textbook example of a clash between two classic...more

McAfee & Taft AgLINC Agriculture & Equine Industry Newsletter - July 2012: The Equal Access to Justice Act - A valuable tool for...

Many farmers are all too familiar with the Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) role in administering the federal crop insurance program. In addition to promulgating regulations, drafting policies, and issuing bulletins affecting...more

McAfee & Taft AgLINC Agriculture & Equine Industry Newsletter - July 2012: General permit now available for pesticides applied to...

For decades, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act has provided regulation for the application of pesticides. However, in 2009, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals required the Environmental Protection Agency...more

Recovering Attorney Fees in Crop Insurance Disputes with the Risk Management Agency: The Equal Access to Justice Act in NAD...

Agricultural Law Update - Volume 28, Number 4 - November 2011 Purchasers of federally reinsured crop insurance policies often find themselves at odds with the actions of the Risk Management Agency (the “RMA”), the arm of...more

McAfee & Taft RegLINC - September 2011: Endangered species litigation — Potential impact on pesticide use in production...

On May 30, 2007, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was failing to comply with Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in regard to 47...more

Agribusiness Alert: Minnesota Court of Appeals Allows Trespass Claim for Pesticide Drift

Pesticide overspray drift to a neighboring property in Minnesota may now qualify as a trespass, thanks to the Minnesota Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Johnson, et al., v. Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Co.,...more

New procedures for foreclosure on agister's liens By Jeff Todd and Andrew Long

Originally published in Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association - July 26, 2011 While the Oklahoma horse industry survived the recent economic decline fairly well, we are aware of many horse boarding and training...more

McAfee & Taft AgLINC: The Oklahoma Livestock Owner’s Lien Act By Jeff Todd

Prior to November 2010, Eastern Livestock Company, LLC (“Eastern”) was one of the largest cattle brokerage companies in the United States. Eastern bought and resold cattle throughout the country under a variety of contractual...more

Intensive Efforts Underway to Conclude WTO Doha Trade Negotiations

Implications for Companies with International Trade Interests Following calls by world leaders at the G20 and APEC meetings in November to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations by the end of 2011,...more

Animal Law Update

Animal Law Update article November 2010...more

Forest Land Occupation and Operation Blocking Issues in Guangxi

This is a memorandum reporting legal issues related to the forest land occupation and operation blocking situation at a state-owned forest farm in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The memorandum is divided into five...more

California Court of Appeal Holds Class Action Waiver in Commercial Contract Not Unconscionable

In Walnut Producers of California v. Diamond Foods, Inc., Case No. C060346 (August 16, 2010), the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District held that a class arbitration waiver in an agreement between walnut...more

Animal Law Update

Animal Law Update - August 2010...more

1976 of 2010 - Hemant Goswami vs. Union of India

Petition Against Introduction of GM Foods

The petition reads, “The Ministry of Environment and Forestry issued a notification citing the provisions of Section 6, 8 and 25 of the ‘Environment (Protection) Act’ and brought into existence a Genetic Engineering Approval...more

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Agriculture vs. Scott Fay, et al.

Answer to Petitioner Scott Fay's Petition for Contempt and Request For Injunctive Relief And Respondent Department of...

Answer to Petitioner's petition for contempt against Department of Agriculture for alleged breach of a Settlement Agreement, which was made an Order of Court, with New Matter alleging four counts of contempt against...more

Fees Must Be Allocated Between Successful and Unsuccessful Claims in the Pigford Litigation

The pigford litigation involved a group of African American farmers who alleged the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied them farm loans and otherwise discriminated against them based upon their race. One of those farmers,...more

Pono v. Molokai Ranch, Ltd.

Respondent and Defendant-Appellee Molokai Properties, Ltd.'s Response to Application for Writ of Certiorari

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Maui Tomorrow v. State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources

Opinion of the Court

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Maui Tomorrow v. State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources

Answering Brief of Appellee Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation

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