all - Opinion Summaries

Overstreet v. Contigroup Cos., Inc.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Denial of defendants' motion for stay and to compel arbitration of an action brought by a chicken farmer who raised chickens for defendants under...

Natural Res. Def. Council v. Johnson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
Dismissal of complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1), is affirmed over claim that 21 U.S.C. section 346a(h)(5)...

Source Food Tech., Inc. v. US Fid. & Guar. Co.

Agriculture, Contracts, Insurance Law, International Law, International Trade
Summary judgment for an insurer on plaintiff's claim for coverage under a business interruption policy is reversed where a Canadian beef ban by the...

Forest Prods. Indus., Inc. v. ConAgra Foods, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts
Summary judgment for defendant in a suit brought by a broker of food packaging materials, claiming tortious interference with a brokerage agreement,...

Mortellite v. Novartis Crop Protection, Inc.

Agriculture, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment against blueberry farmers who filed suit against a pesticide company for damages to their crops is vacated in part where plaintiffs'...

Schwan's IP, LLC v. Kraft Pizza Co.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Summary judgment for defendant, a producer and supplier of frozen pizzas, on a competitor's trademark infringement claim regarding the use of the term...

Nutraceutical Corp. v. Eschenbach

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law
Summary judgment for plaintiffs, manufacturers and sellers of Ephedra, in a suit challenging an FDA regulation banning ephedrine alkaloid dietary...

Alpharma, Inc. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Drugs & Biotech
In a case which had been previously remanded due to the FDA's failure to adequately explain why it granted a company's "new animal drug application"...

Dunbar v. Albertson's

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Order denying certification of a class of defendant's grocery managers to pursue claims for overtime compensation and other relief on the theory that...

Marmo v. Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
An award pursuant to a jury verdict for plaintiff on a nuisance claim involving damages from gases at defendant's beef processing plant, and an award...