by Elizabeth | Dec 11, 2018 | Ag & Food Law Update, Daily Update, Water Law
JUDICIAL: IN RE: SYNGENTA AG MIR 162 CORN LITIGATION, This Document Relates to All Cases Except: Louis Dreyfus Co. Grains Merch. LLC v. Syngenta AG, et al., No. 16-2788 Trans Coastal Supply Co., No. 14-MD-2591-JWL, 2018 WL 6436074 (D. Kan. Dec. 7, 2018): In this...
by Elizabeth | Dec 10, 2018 | Ag & Food Law Update, Daily Update, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, United States Department of Agriculture
JUDICIAL: IN RE: DRY BEAN REVENUE PROTECTION CROP INSURANCE LITIGATION, No. MDL 2871, 2018 WL 6427193 (U.S. Jud. Pan. Mult. Lit. Dec. 6, 2018): Plaintiffs in the two actions listed on Schedule A move under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 to centralize pretrial proceedings in this...
by Elizabeth | Dec 7, 2018 | Ag & Food Law Update, Daily Update, United States Department of Agriculture
JUDICIAL: United States v. Davis, No. 17-3030, 2018 WL 6288077 (8th Cir. Dec. 3, 2018); Appellant pleaded guilty to seventeen counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 3237. Over the course of thirteen months, Appellant fraudulently obtained $262,691...
by Elizabeth | Dec 6, 2018 | Ag & Food Law Update, Daily Update, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
JUDICIAL: Ausmus v. Perdue, 908 F.3d 1248 (10th Cir. 2018); This is an Administrative Procedure Act challenge to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation’s implementation of the Farm CropInsurance Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 1501–1524. Plaintiffs are winter wheat farmers from...
by Elizabeth | Dec 5, 2018 | Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Welfare, Daily Update, United States Department of Agriculture
JUDICIAL: State v. Hunt, 2018 UT App 222: After a free-range stallion known as Confetti Magic aggressively charged him, rancher Marvin Jay Hunt corralled the horse and castrated him, along with several other stallions. One of Hunt’s neighbors (Neighbor) claimed...
