all - Opinion Summaries

COUNTY OF OKANOGAN v. NAT'L MARINE FISHERIES SERV.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law
The district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where the court properly found that it was within the Forest...

HOLDEN FARMS, INC. v. HOG SLAT, INC.

Agriculture, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a case where plaintiffs are suing up the stream of commerce, breach of contract claim was properly dismissed because the one-year limitation for...

CARRANCHO v. CALIFORNIA AIR RES. BD.

Agriculture, Environmental Law
A plan for the diversion of rice straw to off-field uses, and requiring progress reports, complied with the Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw...

ASA-BRANDT, INC. v. ADM INVESTOR SERVS., INC.

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Contracts
A fiduciary relationship existed between farmers and grain elevator, and breach of contract damages including an award of punitive damages against the...

H.C. MCCLAREN, INC. v. US DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law
The Secretary of Agriculture's decision to revoke a Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act license was justified in fact and was not an abuse of...

MCCOY v. HARRISON

Agriculture, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
An Illinois Department of Agriculture animal welfare investigator was entitled to summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, as evidence did...

US v. ALPINE LAND & RESERVOIR CO.

Agriculture, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
District court erred in granting a blanket equitable exemption to intrafarm transfers of water rights, from operation of Nevada's forfeiture laws, but...

AHRENS v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Agriculture, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Plaintiff has not shown that risk of falling from a tractor without a seat belt is beyond the contemplation of an ordinary consumer, so as a matter of...

S. DAKOTA FARM BUREAU, INC. v. HAZELTINE

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law
Section 21 of Article XVII of the South Dakota Constitution, prohibiting corporations or syndicates from acquiring or obtaining an interest in land...

GREEN LEAF NURSERY v. E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Product Liability
In an action alleging discovery abuses, litigation misconduct and RICO violations to induce the settlement of Benlate cases throughout the country for...