The trials for former Peanut Corporation of America CEO Stewart Parnell and three others have been pushed back from February 2014 to sometime in July or August, according to court documents released Wednesday. This is
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Stewart Parnell Keeps His Chosen Attorneys for October Trial
Four former Peanut Corporation of America executives face a federal jury trial in October, but the pre-trial period has been all about just one of them — Stewart Parnell. The former president of the now-defunct
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Raw Milk Trial Ends With Split Jury Verdict
A Sauk County, Wisconsin jury, meeting until 1 a.m. Saturday, acquitted Vernon Hershberger on three charges: operating a farm store without a retail food establishment permit, operating a dairy farm without a milk producer license,
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Minnesota Jury Says Egg Farmer Who Delivered Raw Milk is Not Guilty
The organic egg farmer who picked up raw milk for delivery to his customers in Minnesota’s Twin Cities has been acquitted by a big city jury of violating the state’s ban on commercial sale of
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Minnesota Raw Milk Crime Case Goes to Jury
The fate of a Minnesota organic egg farmer being determined in trial proceedings has gone to the jury, which will resume its deliberations today.
The case went to the jury late Wednesday, and the panel
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Long-Awaited Raw Milk Jury Trial Underway In Minneapolis
The trial that put raw milk protestors on the streets of Minneapolis last spring finally got underway Monday in Hennepin County District Court. They say the man on trial is just a volunteer for a
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Salsa Poisoning Part of Revenge Plot
A plea deal in the federal criminal case over last year’s use of a dangerous pesticide to poison the patrons of a Mexican restaurant in Lenexa, KS means the wife involved will be testifying against
Poultry Litter Trial Over: No Decision Yet
Lawyers making closing arguments waited a week for an ill U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to return to the bench, but the chicken waste trial did come to an end last week.
With no
Poultry Litter Limits Offered by OK
In documents filed ahead of this week’s closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of 65 pounds of poultry litter per
Chicken Manure Not Solid Waste?
During the 12 weeks from mid-September to mid-December in the federal courthouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson put on a lot of evidence that it is poultry litter that is polluting the Illinois
Cherokee Nation Wants Into Poultry Trial
The Cherokee Nation has placed its order with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. It wants its place in the courtroom in Tulsa where the State of Oklahoma and the chicken industry