The attorney for R-CALF USA and several individual rancher-plaintiffs, who alleged in October that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated U.S. law by attempting to force RFID technology upon the entire U.S. cattle industry, filed a response to the agencies’ motion to dismiss. Read the…

The US Dept. of Agriculture filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the agency’s plant to implement a livestock traceability program using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. But lawyers for the plaintiffs want the court to hear the case. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

New Civil Liberties Alliance rejects agency’s attempt to dismiss case after removing guidance on radio frequency identification technology. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and two prominent hedge fund managers are throwing their support behind former investment adviser Raymond Lucia in his latest challenge to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative law judges. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fought back Monday against a preliminary injunction bid by a New York debt collection law firm that’s accused the agency of “blatantly lawless behavior” in investigating it, painting the firm’s case as procedurally improper and rejecting its constitutional challenge to the agency’s budgetary independence. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0…

Federal agencies haven’t had much luck at the U.S. Supreme Court lately, but it could soon get much worse. The justices are now considering taking up two cases that could dramatically limit when courts must defer to regulators about the meaning of statutes. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares