The cow-calf producer organization R-CALF sued the USDA on Oct. 30 to stop the agency from requiring ranchers who move cattle and bison across state lines to use electronic identification ear tags… R-CALF was joined in the lawsuit by the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, Texas-based Farm and Ranch Feedom Alliance, and several individual ranchers in South Dakota and Wyoming……

A group of ranchers and organizations representing cattlemen have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, asking a judge to block a rule requiring the use of electronic tags on cattle. The multiple plaintiffs, including the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and ranchers in South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming, are accusing the department of trying…

A post on social media by the CEO of Tesla Inc. regarding the loss of stock options if workers unionized did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a split en banc FIfth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a per curiam opinion, vacating an order by the National Labor Relations Board and…

A recent petition to the U.S. Supreme Court urges the Justices to take up the question of whether Judge Pauline Newman’s effective removal from the court by her peers is constitutional. It further questions “whether such an act undermines the impartiality and integrity of patent appeals adjudication by depriving the patent owner of a fair hearing before a duly…

… Among the 40+ agencies with ALCs and 50+ adjudicating bodies in the federal government, the SEC and CFTC are the only two known entities that can gag its opponents. The SEC’s tendency to issue gag orders is so unpopular that even prominent billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have denounced them as unfair…

The owner of a background check patent that was found invalid for claiming only an abstract idea has told the U.S. Supreme Court that it was deprived of a fair hearing at the Federal Circuit due to the suspension of Judge Pauline Newman…