by Elizabeth | Mar 29, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Pesticides, United States Department of Agriculture
The Baltimore Sun reports the Maryland senate passed a bill earlier this month that would ban stores from selling products laced with neonicotinoids to homeowners that spray them on their gardens. Neonics, or Neonicotinoid, is a systemic pesticide that once ingested...
by Elizabeth | Mar 28, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food Labeling, Food Safety
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu has proposed a food labeling measure, AB 2725, designed to give consumers standard guidelines on the timeframe that they can safely keep and store food. AB 2725 would standardize date...
by Elizabeth | Mar 28, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Fair Labor Standards Act, Labor
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tyson Foods over the company’s challenge to a nearly $5.8 million class action judgment awarded workers claiming they were underpaid. In a 6-2 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court upheld a 2014 appeals...
by Elizabeth | Mar 23, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Water Law
According to the Storm Lake Times, the Iowa Farm Bureau and other commodity groups are paying legal fees for county drainage districts defending themselves in a lawsuit filed by the Des Moines Water Works. In the suit filed last year, Water Works officials claim...
by Elizabeth | Mar 22, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, International Trade
The nation’s chief agricultural trade negotiator, Darci Vetter, will speak March 29 in Little Rock about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country pact that if approved by Congress, would be the largest free trade agreement in U.S. history. Vetter’s talk is...
