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Controlling bad eggs — on the farm and in the C-Suite

By Tommy Tobin on March 9, 2017

Editor’s note: This column by Tommy Tobin was first published by the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Food can — and all too often does —…
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Seminar asks: Do criminal prosecutions make food safer?

By Dan Flynn on October 6, 2016

After a string of successful prosecutions of food industry managers and executives, the defense bar is getting ready to bite back. The teeth are showing in the title of an upcoming web seminar: “Do Criminal…
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Not a lot standing between egg man Jack DeCoster and jail

By Dan Flynn on September 20, 2016

The sole question remaining before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is whether the federal jail sentences imposed on Austin “Jack” DeCoster and Peter DeCoster are lawful in light of the findings at sentences. [caption…
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Sentencing reformers will be listening to DeCoster appeal panel

By Dan Flynn on February 25, 2016

If those controversial Koch brothers and the conservative Heritage Foundation have their way, sentencing reform may soon require evidence of mens rea — criminal intent — before courts could convict defendants. Before Congress is likely…
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Food Safety Misdemeanors Might Require Showing ‘Guilty State of Mind’

By Dan Flynn on December 10, 2015

One option the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pursued since at least 2010 in criminal prosecutions of corporations and officers is to bring charges that do not require proof that defendants were in…
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