While the National Farmers Union, the nation’s second largest farm group, is launching a campaign to counter consolidation in the agriculture industry, trade groups for the meat industry, including the North American Meat Institute, have pushed back against the allegations that industry consolidation has caused price inflation, and have claimed that higher retail prices were due to market conditions, including the effects of COVID and labor… [read post]

Representative Mica said the measure focuses on unprecedented reforms by cutting red tape and consolidating federal transportation programs. [read post]

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Imperial Distributors, Inc., 15-P-966 (Rule 1:28 Decision) (Sept. 16, 2016), the Court affirmed the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss an abuse of process counterclaim filed by defendant KLT Industries, Inc. after discovery. [read post]