Out of Business but a Winner in Court

Wall Street Journal

3 days ago

For all the political criticism they take, the federal courts keep delivering good outcomes more often than not. On Tuesday the Third Circuit Court of Appeals handed a victory to another victim of the punitive administrative state.
In 2016 the Labor Department accused Sun Valley Orchards, a fourth generation farm in New Jersey, of breaching an employment agreement on H-2A visas. Labor imposed hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines through an in-house administrative proceeding. The agency requested penalties and then approved them, serving as prosecutor, judge and jury.