all - Opinion Summaries

Barker v. Eckman

Agriculture, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts
In a suit for breach of a bailment agreement, the statute of limitations runs from the date the agreement is breached.

US v. Ellis

Agriculture, Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Denial of defendant-epidemiologist's motion to withdraw his guilty plea to manufacturing and possessing with intent to manufacture in excess of one...

Wilcox v. AG Mart Produce

Agriculture, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Denial of benefits to claimant in a workers' compensation case, who was injured in a car accident while driving a company vehicle home from work,...

Florida Evergreen Foliage v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Environmental Law
In case consolidating 28 separate complaints brought by a consortium of Florida growers, denial of motions to amend complaints and grant of summary...

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Veneman

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
Dismissal of an action challenging a decision of the USDA not to adopt a draft policy that would have provided guidance to zoos, research facilities,...

Highway Equip. Co., Inc. v. FECO, Ltd.

Agriculture, Attorney's Fees, Commercial Law, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent and contract-related dispute between manufacturers and sellers of agricultural equipment, summary judgment for plaintiff on defendant's...

Steen v. US

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law, Government Benefits, International Law, International Trade
A ruling by the Court of International Trade upholding an agency decision denying a commercial fisherman's application for a "trade adjustment...

Carrow v. Arnold

Agriculture, Contracts, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought to rescind a set of real estate contracts involving the sale of plaintiff's farm based on alleged fraud and misleading...

Cory v. Aztec Steel Bldg., Inc.

Agriculture, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
18 U.S.C. section 1965(b), rather than subsection (d), gives RICO its nationwide jurisdictional reach. Also, the "ends of justice" personal...

G&T Terminal Packaging Co. v. U.S. Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Government Law
In case where petitioners made illicit cash payments to USDA inspectors, revocation of petitioners' licences to operate in the wholesale produce trade...