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Trinco Investment Company v. US

Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The decision of the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) dismissing plaintiff's takings claim against the Government following the destruction of 1,782 acres...

John v. Alaska Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Water Law
In a challenge to the 1999 Final Rules promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to implement part of the Alaska...

Save Panoche Valley v. San Benito County

Agriculture, Contracts, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The trial court properly denied plaintiffs' petition for writ of mandate challenging defendant-county's certification of an environmental impact...

Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association v. Monsanto Co.

Agriculture, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of an action for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity related to technologies for genetically modifying seeds, is...

Horne v. Department of Agriculture

Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law
In a dispute between the USDA and California raisin growers involving the failure to surrender requisite portions of raisins to the reserve as...

Western Watersheds Project v. Abbey

Agriculture, Environmental Law
In an action challenging the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) management of grazing within the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in...

Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Drugs & Biotech, Environmental Law
District court's summary judgment in favor of defendant federal officials and intervenor-defendants, in an action brought by plaintiffs, environmental...

Bowman v. Monsanto Co.

Agriculture, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The doctrine of patent exhaustion does not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder's...

The Country Vintner of NC v. E. & J. Gallo Winery, Inc.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
Following summary judgment for defendant and its submission of a bill of costs related to electronically stored information (ESI), the district court...

Firebaugh Canal Water District v. US

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Injury & Tort Law, Water Law
Summary judgment for defendant United States Department of the Interior in an action challenging defendant's management of California's Central Valley...