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Weekly Overview: New Ruling Set to Improve Welfare for Europe's Pigs
2015-04-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - EU welfare rules should apply even when the animals are transported out of the region, a court in Luxembourg said last week, as Germany announced it would prioritise animal welfare and the Danes are set to hold an international conference on the topic this week. There are also updates on African swine fever in eastern European wild boar and porcine epidemic diarrhoea in the US.
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Calif drought: Brown admin stick with strict conservation targets, despite court ruling
2015-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Gov. Jerry Brown is sticking to his statewide mandatory water conservation targets, his administration said Tuesday, even as a new appeals court ruling limits the ability of cities and water districts to hit people with punishing rates to encourage them to save water. "The court's decision is bad," said Michael Lauffer, chief counsel at the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento of the Monday ruling by an Orange County appellate court. "It's going to frustrate some local agencies' abilities...
Japan nuclear ruling to show whether legal fight emboldened
2015-04-21 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese court will rule on Wednesday on an injunction to block the restart of two more nuclear reactors, a decision that could determine whether a legal drive by citizens to prevent the reopening of the sector on safety grounds will gather steam. The ruling on the Sendai plant could show whether last week's halting of reopening the Takahama plant over safety concerns was an aberration by an anti-nuclear judge or whether the judiciary has become bolder in supporting the rights of citizens over...
Third Circuit Remands Class Certification Ruling in Blood Reagents Price-Fixing Case
2015-04-17 08:19:43| Biotech - Topix.net
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's order certifying a class of direct purchasers of blood reagents in a price-fixing suit against Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. In re Blood Reagents , case number 12-4067. Plaintiffs allege that Ortho-Clinical Diagnostic Inc. and a producer of blood reagents, violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by conspiring with the only other U.S. producer of reagents, Immucor Inc., to raise prices of blood reagents on numerous occasions throughout the 2000s.
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Supreme Court Ruling Unclear Whether Employers Must Provide Light Duty to Pregnant Employees
2015-04-14 22:18:07| Air Courier - Topix.net
On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Young v. UPS opinion, ruling that an employee should have her day in court to determine whether United Parcel Service Inc. violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act when it denied the employee's request for a light-duty work accommodation when she was pregnant and restricted from heavy lifting.
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