/foodbeverage?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Food & Beverage Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:19:24 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2379315?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2379315 The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday said Alaska state officials may not open part of the Kuskokwim River to gill net fishing by all residents of the state because that would violate a federal law that favors rural, subsistence fishers. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:22:22 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2379226?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2379226 A Washington judge has awarded the state attorney general's office $28.4 million in legal fees for its efforts to block the merger between Kroger and Albertsons that was also challenged by the Federal Trade Commission, largely rejecting the grocery giants' objections to a total fee request of $32.4 million. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:12:52 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2379156?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2379156 A D.C. Circuit Court panel won't overturn a decision dismissing a suit that looked to nullify a Montana water rights settlement, saying a 2010 law ratifying the agreement doesn't specify which tribal member can greenlight a deadline extension for publication of the agreement's statement of findings. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:33:24 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2379233?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2379233 A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday issued a split decision reviving a state court lawsuit brought by a gun retailer alleging state law preempts a city zoning ordinance allegedly meant to restrict firearm sales, ruling there's a fact issue that must be decided by a jury.  Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:35:58 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2375890?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2375890 The Federal Trade Commission's recent focus on price discrimination in high-profile speeches and litigation suggests a renewed interest around Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, particularly in multilevel marketing, making it an apt time for direct sellers to audit their pricing, say Katrina Eash at Winston & Strawn and Juliet Belling Warren and Branko Jovanovic at Edgeworth Economics. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:07:34 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2379077?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2379077 A farmworkers union cannot halt the U.S. Department of Labor from replacing 2020 prevailing wages with 2022 wage-survey results, a Washington federal judge ruled, saying the alleged harm is self-inflicted because the later wages were published following the union's actions. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:17:29 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378140?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378140 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked a New York federal judge to deny an advocacy group's request to unseal the Federal Trade Commission's abandoned price discrimination case against Pepsi, saying it would reveal "confidential investigatory material that courts routinely keep under seal." Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:31:43 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378820 A former CEO of a microcap issuer purportedly in the cannabis beverage business has copped to wire fraud in connection with kickbacks and related transactions involving undercover law enforcement that he initiated as part of an alleged long-running scheme to manipulate prices for the company's shares. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:07:53 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378318?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378318 Chinese agribusiness Joyvio Group Co. Ltd. is asking a Florida federal court to enforce a $217 million arbitral award it won following its nearly $1 billion purchase of a Chilean salmon farming business, after it emerged that the previous owners had deliberately inflated production capacity to drive up the price. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:41:21 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2377887?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2377887 The Federal Aviation Administration's recent proposed rule on autonomous drone delivery operations offers a more streamlined approach, by shifting away from the current pilot-centered framework and placing safety and operational responsibility at the level of the operator's organization, say Amanda Losacco and Jessica Monahan at Cozen O'Connor. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:05:50 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378793?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378793 An operator of Michigan pizza restaurants will not face sanctions in a wage suit over payroll records a group of drivers claimed were missing because the company was not aware the documents were lost, a Michigan federal judge ruled on Tuesday. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:38:42 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2376960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2376960 After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:22:40 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378639?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378639 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said it will rescind a Biden-era Endangered Species Act rule that automatically places the strongest protections on all plants and animals covered by law. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:52:42 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378344?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378344 PepsiCo Inc. and its Frito-Lay North America Inc. unit are letting third parties like Google and Facebook track browsing activities and collect the information of consumers who visit the food companies' websites, despite consumers selecting "no" to unnecessary cookies, a proposed class action in California federal court alleges. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:49:57 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2377918?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2377918 An Illinois state appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a suit seeking to hold a farmer and his farm liable for injuries suffered by a motorist who hit a stray cow, saying the evidence showed that the farmer did not own the cow in question. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:41:02 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2377750?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2377750 McDonald's has struck a deal to end a Colorado customer's Illinois state court lawsuit over a 2024 E. coli outbreak linked to the company's Quarter Pounder hamburgers, according to a court filing. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:04:23 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2377935?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2377935 A patent licensing company has agreed to drop its suit alleging Starbucks infringed a patent covering a mobile ordering system, although defamation claims against one of the coffee chain's attorneys remains at play in another case. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:41:28 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378347?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378347 AES Clean Energy Development LLC's argument that it was not the party responsible for breaking irrigation lines leading to an alleged $200 million in damages to two hemp growers is a problem to still resolve in a lawsuit against the company, a Colorado federal judge found in denying a motion to dismiss on Monday. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:59:34 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2378137?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2378137 The Second Circuit partially revived a proposed class action Monday against a Northeastern U.S. grocery chain alleging mismanagement of an employee 401(k) plan, finding a lower court wrongly tossed some allegations in the suit for failure to state a claim. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:04:58 +0000 /foodbeverage/articles/2375324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /foodbeverage/articles/2375324 A recent À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.