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Federal District Court Allows North Dakota Farmers Union and Dakota Resource Council to Intervene

Paul Goeringer

Feb 15, 2017
3 min

Federal District Court Allows North Dakota Farmers Union and Dakota Resource Council to Intervene

This post is not legal advice. See the site’s reposting policy here. In a prior post, I discussed the ongoing battle by the North Dakota Farm Bureau challenging the constitutionality of the state’s ban on non-family corporations owning farmland in North Dakota (www.aglaw.umd.edu/blog/ anti-corporate-farming-law-challenged-in-north-dakota). The federal district court in North Dakota recently granted a motion by the North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) and the Dakota Resource Co

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Sep 16, 2016
2 min

Weekly News Roundup: September 16th Edition

By Mayhah Suri What Kind of Ag Law Outreach Would You Like to See? Now available online is a program evaluation for the Ag Law Education Initiative (ALEI). The evaluation will help ALEI determine what topics to prioritize in the coming years. Let us know what you want to know! You can take the brief, anonymous survey here: http://go.umd.edu/ALEIEval Updated SCO Fact Sheet Now Available Paul Goeringer and Howard Leathers recently released an update to the Supplemental Coverag

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Anti-Corporate Farming Law Challenged in North Dakota

Paul Goeringer

Aug 2, 2016
4 min

Anti-Corporate Farming Law Challenged in North Dakota

This post is not legal advice In June, the North Dakota Farm Bureau brought a lawsuit against the state of North Dakota asking the federal district court to declare North Dakota’s Anti-Corporate Farming Law unconstitutional. In June, North Dakota voters rejected moves by the state’s legislature to loosen up the Anti-Corporate Farming Law. North Dakota is one of eight states with an anti-corporate farming law as either a statute or a constitutional amendment. Although these

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Paul Goeringer

Jul 27, 2014
3 min

A Constitutional Right to Farm?

Note: This post originally appeared in the Delmarva Farmer July 22, 2014, Vol. 39, No. 20. This post does not also substitute for legal advice. State constitutions typically guarantee their citizens freedom of speech, the right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and the right to a jury trial, but what about a right to farm? In the past few years, a few states in the Midwest have put forward constitutional amendments which enshrine a right to farm in their states’ const

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