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Agricultural Law Podcast

Oct 27, 2020

Federal district courts vacated a SNAP Rule that reduced benefit access and then authorized a class action price-fixing suit to proceed against several large meatpackers and the Ninth Circuit denied an injunction against California’s Proposition 12, which mandates space standards for confined animals.

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Oct 20, 2020

JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s Pride pled guilty to price-fixing broiler chickens while JBS parent company J&F pled guilty to bribery.  Also, a second lawsuit was filed against the DEA over its hemp interim rule and New York expanded its spotted lanternfly quarantine while a spotted lanternfly was detected in Oregon.


Oct 14, 2020

DOJ indicted six more poultry executives over alleged price fixing while the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Indiana's Right to Farm Act.  Then, a federal court enjoined a Presidential Proclamation halting non-immigrant work visas and USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue was found in violation of the Hatch...


Oct 8, 2020

USDA and FDA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate and collaborate on dairy exports while a continuing appropriations act passed by Congress extends the 2014 Hemp Pilot Program.  Also, a federal district court dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against several large meatpacking companies and the FTC...


Oct 1, 2020

Research Assistant Audry Thompson talks with Brook Duer, Center Staff Attorney, about the details of large-scale solar leases to familiarize landowners with the legal terms and concepts they need to know if they’ve been approached by a solar development company or are thinking of inquiring about solar development on...