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SANDERSON FARMS, INC. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Agriculture, Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB's determination, that live-haul and pull-up drivers at a poultry farm facility were not agricultural laborers under the National Labor...

REAVES BROKERAGE CO., INC. v. SUNBELT FRUIT & VEGETABLE CO., INC.

Agriculture, Contracts
Summary judgment in favor of plaintiff for reimbursement under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 7 U.S.C. sections 499a-499s, is affirmed...

HILLSIDE DAIRY INC. v. LYONS

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law
California's milk pricing and pooling regulations are not exempted from Commerce Clause scrutiny by the Federal Agriculture and Reform Act of 1996....

CROPLIFE AM. v. ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Agriculture, Drugs & Biotech, Environmental Law
An EPA directive, banning agency consideration of "third party" human studies in evaluating the safety of pesticides, constituted a binding regulation...

IN RE: LAMPE

Agriculture, Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A wife had an ownership interest in farm equipment, so that she was entitled to a "tools of the trade" exemption from a bankruptcy estate for the...

FOREST GUARDIANS v. US FOREST SERV.

Agriculture, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A phased-in reduction scheme included in ten-year cattle grazing permits is a proper limit on the number of livestock a permitee can graze on his...

HOLUBEC v. BRANDENBURGER

Agriculture, Civil Procedure
A defective jury charge denied agricultural operators the protection of the Right to Farm Act's affirmative defense against claims that agricultural...

KOAM PRODUCE, INC. v. DIMARE HOMESTEAD, INC.

Agriculture, Attorney's Fees, Commercial Law, Contracts
A reparations award under the Perishable Agriculture Commodities Act is affirmed, as price-adjustment agreements were voidable under the doctrine of...

STAHL v. US DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Agriculture, Banking Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
7 U.S.C. Sec. 2001 unambiguously requires recapture of fifty percent of the appreciated value of farm property securing the loan upon the expiration...

JOPSON v. FEATHER RIVER AIR QUALITY MGMT. DIST.

Agriculture, Environmental Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Government Code section 818.8 protects defendant from liability stemming from its miscalculation of plaintiff's marketable emission reduction credits...