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Ninth Circuit upholds deregulation of GM alfalfa
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 31 2013
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling affirming the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Environmentalists sue EPA to stop use of pesticides allegedly harmful to honey bees
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- March 22 2013
Beekeepers, environmentalists and advocacy organizations have filed an action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the U.S. Environmental
Chemical industry trade association challenges proposed Prop. 65 listing for BPA
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- March 8 2013
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in a California state court against California EPA's
Dole agrees to work on Guatemalan water project to settle misrepresentation claims
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- February 1 2013
Without admitting liability, Dole Food Co. has reportedly settled a putative class action that claimed the company misrepresented its environmental
Court refuses to lift ban on shark fins in California
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- January 11 2013
A federal court in California has determined that Asian-American interest organizations have not sustained their burden of showing that they are
Dole targeted with “greenwashing” class action
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- November 30 2012
A putative class action alleging that Dole Food Co. misleads consumers by claiming it is an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company despite purportedly purchasing bananas from growers using pesticides in Guatemala has reportedly been filed in a California federal court
Environmentalists challenge GM potato trials in Ireland
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Ireland, USA
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- August 31 2012
Following the Irish Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to allow genetically modified (GM) potato trials in County Carlow, a group of environmentalists and organic producers reportedly mounted a legal challenge under the Aarhus Convention which allows environmental legal issues to be pursued under a “non-prohibitively expensive order.”
Advocacy groups challenge constitutionality of California shark fin ban
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- July 20 2012
Organizations representing the interests of Asian Americans have filed suit in a federal court in California against the governor and agency officials seeking a declaration that legislation enacted in October 2011 banning the “possession, sale, offer for sale, distribution, or trade of shark fins” violates their members’ equal protection rights, unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce and preempts federal law, and deprives them of rights, privileges and immunities under the U.S. Constitution
Organic farmers fail to show controversy, patent invalidation suit against Monsanto dismissed
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- March 2 2012
A federal court in New York has dismissed, for lack of jurisdiction, the claims filed by numerous organic farming interests seeking a declaration that they are not infringing Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seed patents, the patents are invalid and unenforceable and the company would not be entitled to remedies against them
Claims rejected: deregulation of GE alfalfa, lead in fruit juice, MDL transfer of “all natural” Skinnygirl Margarita actions, U.S. Supreme Court review of $97.4-million Nicaraguan judgment in banana worker exposure to pesticides
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Nicaragua, USA
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- January 13 2012
According to news sources, the Center for Food Safety, which lost its challenge to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) decision to deregulate without restriction genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, plans to appeal the matter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
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