July 13, 2017
The federal government on Thursday won a bid to compel Nebraska Beef Ltd. to show why it shouldn't be held in contempt of a court order that required it to perform non-monetary obligations under a settlement that resolved the government's investigation into alleged discrimination.
December 12, 2016
The U.S. Department of Justice did not violate the terms of a settlement it struck with Nebraska Beef Ltd. through the language it used to announce that its immigrant discrimination probe of the processed meat provider had been settled, a Nebraska federal judge found Friday.
August 02, 2016
Nebraska Beef Ltd. has sought a quick win on its counterclaims that when the federal government made certain comments about the processed meat provider in unveiling their settlement of an immigrant discrimination probe, the government forfeited a $200,000 penalty payment.
May 09, 2016
A Nebraska federal judge denied the government's bid to chuck a counterclaim in a case over a beef company's failure to pay a $200,000 penalty following a probe into whether it discriminated against immigrants, saying there was enough to draw a "reasonable inference" that the government could be liable for misconduct.
October 13, 2015
Beef between the Department of Justice and a Nebraska meatpacking company over its alleged discrimination against work-authorized noncitizens escalated on Tuesday with a complaint filed by the DOJ in Nebraska federal court claiming the company failed to pay a previously agreed to $200,000 civil penalty.