Two South Carolina chicken farmers filed a federal class-action lawsuit April 18, claiming they were ripped off by a standard poultry industry contracting practice that may be victimizing others like them. Michael and Jean-Nichole Diaz, a married couple, contend that after they signed a contract with Amick Farms LLC in 2019 to provide chickens for the poultry processing company, they […]

Before you sign a contract to buy a dog, make sure you read the fine print. That is the takeaway from an April 13 settlement announcement by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. A California-based financial services company agreed to pay $930,000 to resolve allegations that it was illegally leasing dogs in Massachusetts. If you were unaware that dog leasing exists, neither did […]

While the news reports on Democratic Party fears of an electoral bloodbath, U.S. House of Representatives district maps for 2022’s midterm elections appear more evenly split than they have been in a century. What happened? A fair amount of partisan gerrymandering on both sides of the aisle, some help from the courts, and a lot of luck resulted in a […]