Free Speech Court Victory Ratified With Gov. Signature Kansas Legislature cleans up raw milk statute after Kansas Justice Institute lawsuit Kansas Justice Institute’s landmark free-speech victory made its way through the Kansas Legislature with Senate Bill 346 receiving Gov. Laura Kelly’s signature. While the bill was signed...
By Tim Carpenter Posted Jan 1, 2020 Raw milk producers may now advertise in Kansas Kansas dairy goat producers Coraleen and Mark Bunner from near Hays filed a lawsuit against the state for restrictions placed on farmers advertising raw milk products, and won. Kansas dairy goat farmers Coraleen and Mark Bunner’s...
Bizarre law drives justified suit Feb 18, 2020 Got raw milk? Kansas goat farmers Mark and Coraleen Bunner do, but bizarrely, they and every other producer have been prohibited by state law from advertising or even mentioning that fact anywhere but physically on their farms. That means no...
By Sam MacRoberts The First Amendment doesn’t stop at a farmer’s gate. At least not anymore, thanks to Mark and Coraleen Bunner. The Bunners are hardworking, honest dairy farmers near Hays. They started their dairy nearly 25 years ago with just a single goat and expanded slowly...
By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board - November 11, 2019 05:00 AM via The Kansas City Star Got raw milk? Kansas goat farmers Mark and Coraleen Bunner do, but bizarrely, they and every other producer have been prohibited by state law from advertising or even...
By Alexia Kulwiec | November 11, 2019 via Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund - FarmToConsumer.org Until last week, Kansas raw milk farmers were permitted to produce raw milk and sell it directly from the farm but were prohibited from advertising it off-premises. According to the Raw...
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has agreed that a Kansas statute sharply limiting such advertising violates the First Amendment. EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 11.7.2019 9:01 AM via Reason.com Kansas law allows "the sale of milk or milk products on the farm by the producer from the...
By Tim Carpenter via CJonline.com the Topeka Capital Journal Goat farmers Coraleen and Mark Bunner’s lawsuit challenging a 50-year-old state law limiting advertising on sales of raw milk resulted Wednesday in a court order approved by the Kansas attorney general and the Kansas agriculture secretary conceding...