The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, challenging a new rule that would require electronically readable, or EID, ear tags for certain cattle and bison transported across state lines. Set to take effect on November 5, the rule aims…

Senior United States District Judge David Alan Ezra vacated the ATF’s bump stock ban rule on Monday and recognized plaintiff Michael Cargill’s “right to possess” the device under federal law… Cargill secured a favorable ruling against the bump stock ban in this same district court in 2023, however, the court did not provide any means…

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…