They are not the last cowboy song but they are likely the final full pardons from the 45th President of the United States.
And they are being forgiven for breaking some of the most basic food safety laws after having gotten off pretty light to begin with.
A posthumous pardon
Continue Reading South Dakota ranch family got pardon; likely got off light at time of crimes
One way for legal issues to make their way to the Supreme Court is when the federal circuit courts don’t agree with one another. It’s too early to tell, but the legal tangle that’s been going on for most of the past decade over state laws to protect animal agriculture
Continue Reading Differences in circuit court opinions are the stuff that makes Supreme Court cases
Federal judges so far haven’t been willing to share any of their enviable security blanket with animal agriculture.
But that might change if a strategy out of Iowa is successful. It was as recently as January that senior federal district court Judge James E. Gritzner ruled Iowa’s first “ag-gag”
Continue Reading An 8th Circuit strategy is behind Iowa’s ‘ag-gag’ 2.0
It looks like Austin “Jack” DeCoster and son Peter DeCoster will both be wintering at the federal prison in Yankton, SD. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied petitions from the DeCosters who were both seeking a rehearing en banc or a rehearing by a three-judge panel. Only Chief
Continue Reading 8th Circuit denies rehearing; DeCosters must serve jail time
As legal experts were predicting, the appellant attorney for Austin “Jack” DeCoster and Peter DeCoster got a deadline extension in his quest to obtain another review of the pair’s sentences in a case about the 2010 Salmonella outbreak linked to their eggs. Attorney Peter Keisler of the Washington D.C. firm
Continue Reading Odds could favor DeCosters’ desire for review of egg sentence
Sending food industry executives to jail for company food safety violations, even if they did not know about them, might seem a useful way to bring about more compliance, but corporate America is rising up to strike down the practice. Amicus briefs are pouring in from industry groups to support
Continue Reading Business Groups Support Appeal to Keep DeCosters Out of Prison
As part of a campaign to keep their clients from serving any prison time, appellate attorneys for Austin (“Jack”) and Peter DeCoster are depicting the roles the former egg producers played in the 2010 Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak as marked by corporate responsibility and cooperation. The picture being painted stands in
Continue Reading DeCosters Cite 2010 Performance to Help Keep Them Out of Jail
