Emily Ashcraft

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City Employee Pleaded Guilty After Submitting False Environmental Tests

At a hearing on Thursday, Jay Earnest Niday, who worked with the Sioux City Wastewater Treatment Plant, pleaded guilty to counts of conspiracy and knowingly tampering with Clean Water...

BASF Accused of Infringing Patent Used in Ethanol Plants

Kurita America Inc., a Minnesota corporation, claimed in a Northern District of Illinois complaint on Thursday that BASF sells products that use its patented technology used for preventing and...

Court Rules in Favor of Pork Plant Worker Unions...

The District of Minnesota ruled in favor of food workers’ unions on Wednesday, granting them partial summary judgment in a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)...

Complaint Claims General Mills’ Annie’s Mac And Cheese Hides...

An Eastern District of New York class-action complaint filed on Thursday against General Mills Inc. claimed that the company’s various Mac and Cheese products sold under the name Annie’s...

Another Settlement Reached in Tuna Antitrust Lawsuit

On Wednesday, various grocers and others in the direct purchaser plaintiffs class asked the Southern District of California to give preliminary approval to a settlement agreement it reached with...

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Sanderson Farms’ False Advertising...

The Ninth Circuit issued an opinion on Wednesday in a lawsuit against Sanderson Farms Inc. purporting that it misled consumers about its use of antibiotics filed by non-profit organizations....