Perdue Farms Inc. isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction in two cases challenging the Department of Labor’s administrative law judges, a federal court said.
Perdue failed to show an urgent need for the order or that it would be irreparably harmed if an ALJ heard the underlying Food Safety Modernization Act whistleblower claims, Judge Terrence W. Boyle said Wednesday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Farmers Craig Watts in 2015, and Rudy Howell in 2021, complained that Perdue gave them sickly chickens and then instituted whistleblower actions against the company under the FSMA. The ...
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