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Ladd v. Ries

Agriculture, Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A decision denying bankruptcy debtors' motion to amend their asset schedules to claim their farm as exempt property under state law is reversed where...

Pelts & Skins, LLC v. Landreneau

Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Government Law
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, a previous opinion holding that Louisiana's alligator marketing program created an unconstitutional compelled...

Bard v. Jahnke

Agriculture, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants, in case involving attack on plaintiff by defendants' bull, is affirmed where evidence established that prior...

Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Helliker

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Government Law
Judgment in an agency action surrounding pesticide registration is affirmed where a declaratory judgment correctly construed the statute and where...

Bostic v. Goodnight

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
Findings of fact and conclusions of law in a corporate self-dealing suit are affirmed where: 1) defendant waived his right to a jury trial on a claim...

Wallace v. Louisiana Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Insurance Law
The mandatory abstention provisions of 28 U.S.C. section 1369(b) are not an independent bar to the exercise of jurisdiction over a case removed...

Garcia v. Johanns

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Banking Law, Civil Rights, Class Actions
Grant of a motion to dismiss and denial of class certification in an action alleging racial discrimination in the administration of various...

Bourdeau Bros., Inc. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n

Agriculture, Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade, Trademark
The importation and sale of a trademarked good of domestic manufacture, produced solely for sale abroad and not authorized by the owner of the...

Doeblers' Pennsylvania Hybrids, Inc. v. Doebler

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law & Real Estate, Trade Secrets, Trademark
Summary judgment for plaintiff and entry of a permanent injunction in its favor in a trademark and trade secret dispute between corn-seed businesses...

Ace Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Fed. Crop Ins. Corp.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Contracts, Government Law, Insurance Law
7 U.S.C. section 6912(e) is nothing more than "a codified requirement of administrative exhaustion" and is thus not jurisdictional. Dismissal of a...