Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 5/1/20


Going into a motion hearing yesterday, attorneys for Smithfield Foods might have expected a quick ruling in their favor. After all, hours earlier the company’s plant had been placed under the federal government’s Defense Production Act.  The hopes and desires of an activist group and a mystery plaintiff being promoted in its lawsuit won’t seem to account for much after DPA enactment. But after a motion hearing Thursday, attorneys for the Rural Community Workers Alliance had managed to keep their lawsuit against Smithfield alive and the court was still considering whether to allow one plaintiff to proceed while only being known by the pseudonym “Jane Doe.”

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