By former USDA Secretary John R. Block
By now, I should not be surprised when the federal government uses its power and strength to hammer a defenseless individual citizen. Let me tell you about Edward Poitevent and the dusky gopher frog.
In 2011, t…
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By former USDA Secretary John R. Block
Now that the election is over, Democrats are trying to figure out what went wrong. Not only will they lose the White House in January, they did not get control of the Senate and gained very little in the House.…
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Tags: Agriculture, Cabinet, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, House of Representatives, John R. Block, Mike Pence, President, Republican, Rural America, Senate, Supreme Court, Transition
By former USDA Secretary John R. Block
It’s a new day. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. Washington, D.C. is in shock. It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. Clinton was supposed to win.
A year and a half ago, Do…
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Tags: Agriculture, Death Tax, Democrats, Donald Trump, EPA, John R. Block, Obamacare, President, Republican Congress, Supreme Court, TPP
On October 27, 2016, OFW Law founding principal Richard L. Frank filled in for former USDA Secretary John R. Block on his weekly radio broadcast:
Tuesday, November 8, is Election Day. A free and fair election is what separates the U.S. from many…
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Tags: Congress, Democrat, Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, John R. Block, Merrick Garland, President, Republican, Richard L. Frank, Senate, Supreme Court, White House
Peat miners, golfers, and landowners with real property containing or adjacent to Waters of the United States will benefit greatly from the Supreme Court’s May 31st decision in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc. Hawkes resolved whet…
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Tags: Administrative Procedure Act, Appeal, Approved Jurisdictional Determination, Army Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Environment, Hawkes, Landowner, Law Firm, Lawyer, Litigation, Stewart D. Fried, Supreme Court, Water, Waters of the US, Wetland
By John G. Dillard and Jerry Chapin
Do USDA’s mandatory supply controls violate the Fifth Amendment even if they are intended to prop up commodity prices? According to the Supreme Court, the answer is “yes.” On Monday June 22nd, all…
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Tags: Agriculture, California, Fifth Amendment, Food, Horne, Horne v. USDA, John G. Dillard, Marketing Order, Raisin, Raisin Administrative Committee, Reserve Pool, Supply Control, Supreme Court, USDA
By John R. Block
The U.S. Supreme Court decides a lot of very serious, high-profile cases – gay marriage for example. However, recently, they heard one about raisins. Yes – raisins.
The Raisin Program dates back to the Great Depression of the 19…
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Tags: Agriculture, California, John R. Block, Marketing Order, Marvin Horne, Raisin, Raisin Administrative Committee, Raisin Program, Supreme Court, Tomato, UglyRipe
By Michael J. O’Flaherty and Stewart D. Fried
In a recent opinion delivered by Justice Kennedy (with Justice Breyer recused), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that competitors may bring Lanham Act claims challenging food labels, even…
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Tags: Advertising, Coca-Cola, Coke, Congress, Food, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Food Label, Food Marketing, Labeling, Lanham Act, Litigation, Michael J. O'Flaherty, Minute Maid, POM, POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola, Stewart D. Fried, Supreme Court
On March 4, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawson v. FMR LLC, No. 12-3 that “whistleblower” protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 extends to the employees of a public company’s private contractors and subcontractor…
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