It’s been a year since my favorite fast-food restaurant — Taco Bell — was served with a frivolous lawsuit alleging that the ground beef used in many of its offerings is not real beef. Rather, the legal team said, it is ground beef blended with extenders and fillers.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has asked a federal court to turn over grand jury records from the U.S. government's investigation into the now-defunct beef plant as he prepares for a civil lawsuit.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected House of Raeford’s appeal against criminal charges that the company willfully released turkey remains into waterways, in violation of federal clean water law.
Cargill Meat Solutions has settled a class-action lawsuit brought by workers seeking back pay for donning and doffing at its Schuyler, Neb., meatpacking plant.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Arkansas poultry processor OK Industries, which was ordered to pay a $14.5 million judgment to approximately 300 Oklahoma farmers who raised chickens for the company.
A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the employees at Creekstone Farm's Arkansas City, Kan., facility is seeking unpaid wages and overtime. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court names employees Paz Sanchez and Elvis Posadas as the representative plaintiffs and seeks to include anyone who worked at the facility in the past three years.
