Recovering Attorney Fees in Crop Insurance Disputes with the Risk Management Agency: The Equal Access to Justice Act in NAD... by McAfee & Taft on 11/9/2011 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... by McAfee & Taft on 10/11/2011 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
New procedures for foreclosure on agister's liens By Jeff Todd and Andrew Long by McAfee & Taft on 7/27/2011 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 by McAfee & Taft on 6/15/2011 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
Michigan’s Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act gives DEQ authority to regulate concentrated animal feeding... by Warner Norcross & Judd on 3/31/2011 In Michigan Farm Bureau v. Department of Environmental Quality, the Court of Appeals held that DEQ Rule 2196 does not exceed the scope of the DEQ’s statutory rulemaking authority under Michigan’s Natural Resources and...more
Intensive Efforts Underway to Conclude WTO Doha Trade Negotiations by King & Spalding on 2/2/2011 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
Forest Land Occupation and Operation Blocking Issues in Guangxi by Quan Zhou on 9/30/2010 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 by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/21/2010 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
1976 of 2010 - Hemant Goswami vs. Union of India Petition Against Introduction of GM Foods by Hemant Goswami on 2/5/2010 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... by David McKenzie on 10/9/2009 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 by Barger & Wolen on 5/15/2009 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 by Robert Thomas on 12/5/2008 ...more
Maui Tomorrow v. State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources Opinion of the Court by Robert Thomas on 5/5/2006 ...more