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The Renewable Fuels Standard Provisions Under the Clean Air Act: Overview and Recent Developments (Foy)

Agricultural Law Bibliography First Quarter 2008 Updates

States' Animal Cruelty Statutes (Springsteen)

Animal Cruelty Statutes - A State-By-State Analysis (Springsteen)

U.S. Farm Bills

Legislative history documents (conference, Senate and House committee reports) were digitized and added for all previously digitized farm bills (1933 through 1990). Newly digitized legislation and accompanying Congressional reports include:

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1935

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

Steagall Amendment of 1941

Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948

Food and Agricultural Act of 1962

Agricultural Act of 1964

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 (selected provisions)

Extra-Long Staple Cotton Act of 1983

Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983

Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984

Technical Corrections to Food Security Act of 1985 Amendments

Food Security Improvements Act of 1986

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (selected provisions)

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (selected provisions)

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (selected provisions)

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (selected provisions)

Amendments to the National Wool Act (1993)

Link to the Farm Bills Page

Congressional Research Service Reports

Seven new reports were added on 6/11/08:

High Agricultural Commodity Prices: What Are the Issues

Rising Food Prices and Global Food Needs: U.S. Response

Haiti: Legislative Responses to the Food Crisis and Related Development Challenges

Proposals to Merge the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management:
Issues and Approaches

Waiver Authority Under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)

Conservation Reserve Program Payments: Self-Employment Income, Rental Income,
or Something Else?

U.S. Trade Situation for Fruit and Vegetable Products

The National AgLaw Reporter

Case Summaries

Ace Property and Casualty Insurance Co. v. Federal Crop Insurance Corp. (exhaustion of remedies)

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Dep't of Energy (compliance reporting)

Harts v. Johanns (viable appeal)

Star Growers v. United States Dep't of Agric. (attorney's fees)

Association of Irritated Residents v. C&R Vanderham Dairy (CAA challenge against a dairy)

Association of Irritated Residents v. Fred Schakel Dairy (motion to dismiss CAA challenge to dairy)

Berne Area Alliance for Quality Living v. Dodge County Board of Commissioners
(environmental impact statement)

Breitweiser v. Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication (administrative procedures)

Coldani v. Hamm (CWA challenge against a dairy)

Daniels v. Iowa (constitutional challenge of DNR regulation)

Furnas County Farms v. Hayes County (zoning)

Gooding County v. Wybenga (CAFO ordinance)

Hanchera v. Board of Adjustment (zoning)

Shuler v. Premium Standard Farms, Inc. (wrongful discharge)

Vasgaard v. Murray County Board of Commissioners (challenge to denial of petition for Environmental
Assessment Worksheet)

In re Hall (priority status of capital gains tax arising from the post-petition sale of farm land)

Hart v. Logan (core and non-core proceedings; subject matter jurisdiction)

U.S. Bank N.A. v. Young (In re Young) (waiving the farmer defense)

Marrama v. Citizens Bank (bad faith debtor does not have absolute power to convert)

Rice v. Dunbar (feasibility test and best-interests-of-the-creditors test)

Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America v. United States
Dep't of Agric. (open borders)

Roney v. Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers of New York, Inc. (tort claim regarding
undercooked hamburger)

Movsovitz & Sons of Fla., Inc. v. Axel Gonzalez, Inc. (officer liability)

Post & Taback, Inc. v. United States Dep't of Agric. (full prompt payment)

Case Law Indexes

Animal Identification

Finance and Credit

Clean Water Act

Biotechnology

Commercial Transactions

Biosecurity

Secured Transactions

Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)

Marketing Orders

Federal Register Digest - Current Updates (June 9 through June 27, 2008)

USDA Judicial Officer Decisions

In re. Marvin and Laura Horne, d/b/a Raisin Valley Farms - Agricultural Marketing Act

In re. Coosemans Specialties, Inc.; Eddy C. Creces; Coosemans - PACA

In re. Frank Craig and Jean Craig, d/b/a Frank's Wholesale Meats - PACA

In re. Octagon Sequence of Eight, Inc.; Lancelot Kollman Ramos; and Manuel Ramos - PACA

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