Despite the Johnsons' requests, in 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2008, the cooperative sprayed pesticide and herbicide on fields adjacent to theirs in a manner that violated Minnesota law, causing chemicals to land on the Johnsons' farm. 205.202(b), remains viable. As a pre-law student you are automatically registered for the Casebriefs LSAT Prep Course. The court of appeals also concluded that the district court erred in failing to separately analyze or discuss the Johnsons' claims that were not based on trespass or on 7 C.F.R. Johnson sold his herbicide-tainted crops at lower, nonorganic prices and, as required by federal regulation, removed the tainted field from organic production for three years. For the purposes of this appeal from summary judgment, we assume the following facts, which we perceive to be either undisputed or the reasonable inferences of disputed facts construed in the light most favorable to the Johnsons as the nonmoving parties. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. Oluf Johnson posted signs at the farm's perimeter indicating that it was chemical free, maintained a buffer zone between his organic fields and his chemical-using neighbors' farms, and implemented a detailed crop-rotation plan. Further, numerous regulations in Title 7, Part 205, explicitly govern the behavior of producers and handlers. The argument is persuasive. Traditionally, trespasses are distinct from nuisances: [t]he law of nuisance deals with indirect or intangible interference with an owner's use and enjoyment of land, while trespass deals with direct and tangible interferences with the right to exclusive possession of land. Dobbs, supra, 50 at 96. 205.202(b). To the extent that the court of appeals' decision would reinstate those claims and allow the Johnsons to amend their complaint to include those claims for the 2008 incidents of pesticide drift, we reverse. To defeat a summary judgment motion, the opposing party must make a showing sufficient to establish each essential element. 205.202(b) failed as a matter of law, and therefore, reversed the court of appeals' reinstatement of those claims; and (2) held that the district court failed to consider whether the Johnsons' non trespass claims that were not based on section 205.202(b) could survive summary judgment, and therefore, affirmed the court of appeals' reinstatement of those claims. In asking the Court to recognize a claim of trespass by . These cases go beyond our precedent because they conclude that intangible objects can support a claim for trespass to land. Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Coop. To the extent that the Johnsons' proposed amended complaint includes such claims, the district court properly denied the Johnsons' motion to amend. Here, the district court concluded that the Johnsons' amendments adding the 2008 claims would not withstand summary judgment for the same reasons that the 2007 claims for trespass, negligence per se, and nuisance failed. 13, at 71. Some pesticides drifted onto and contaminated plaintiffs organic fields and organic products. Organic farmers Oluf and Debra Johnson filed a civil suit alleging that the Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company sprayed a chemical pesticide that drifted from pesticide-targeted fields onto theirs, and that this prevented them from selling their crops under a federal nonpesticide "organic" certification. And we reverse the denial of the Johnsons' motion to amend their complaint and of their request for a permanent injunction because both denials were based on the same mistaken legal conclusions. Reading the phrase "applied to it" in 7 C.F.R. The term particulate matter encompasses a variety of substances, but the court's one-size-fits-all holding that particulate matter can never cause a trespass fails to take into account the differences between these various substances. Drifted particles did not affect plaintiffs possession of the land. 7 U.S.C. Cf. Id. at 550. Because the Johnsons did not have any evidence of damages based on the NOP regulations, the court concluded that all of the Johnsons' claims must be dismissed and the temporary injunction vacated. In addition, the Johnsons claim damages for actual crop losses, inconvenience, and adverse health effects. However, the disruption to the landowners exclusive possessory interest is not the same when the invasion is committed by an intangible agency, such as pesticide particles at issue here. 205.400(f)(1). The OFPA provides important context for interpretation of the regulation because the NOP regulations were drafted to carry out the provisions of the OFPA. In addition, if unavoidable residual environmental contamination is present on the product at levels that are greater than those set for the substance at issue, the product may not be sold as organic. Based on the presence of pesticides in their fields, the Johnsons filed this lawsuit against the Cooperative, alleging trespass, nuisance, negligence per se, and battery. They alleged that the drift has caused "substantial inconveniences" because they are required to report the contamination and it affects their crop rotations, organic-farm planning, and record keeping. A10-1596, A10-2135 (July The MDA investigated, found drift, and instructed the Johnsons to burn their contaminated alfalfa. We considered but rejected the theory that the fumes were the kind of physical intrusion onto property that could support a trespass claim, even though, scientifically speaking, odorous elements within fumes are indeed physical substances, which we referred to as merely "particulate matter." Webipad 6th gen silver 32gb with case $160 (wdc > Ashburn) 2.8mi hide this posting restore restore this posting. Id. The district court granted summary judgment to the Cooperative and dismissed all of the Johnsons' claims. The district court relied on a phrase in our decision in Wendinger and dismissed the trespass claim, but we think the district court read too much into our specific wording in that case. 205.671confirm this interpretation. 205.202(b), and therefore had no basis on which to seek an injunction. As discussed above, the Johnsons' 2007 trespass claim and claims based on 7 C.F.R. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The Cooperative filed a motion for summary judgment, which the district court granted. P. 15.01. WebFinal Research Paper Case Brief 1 Citation: Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Co-op Oil Comp., 817 N.W. The difference between ordinary negligence and negligence per se is that in negligence per se, a statutory duty of care is substituted for the ordinary prudent person standard such that a violation of a statute is conclusive evidence of duty and breach. Gradjelick v. Hance, 646 N.W.2d 225, 231 n. 3 (Minn.2002). Smelting & Ref. And because the court concluded that the Johnsons' claims arising from the 2008 incidents would necessarily fail as a matter of law under the same analysis, the court denied the Johnsons' motion to amend their complaint to include claims based on the 2008 incidents. 2000) (defining particulate matter as "[m]aterial suspended in the air in the form of minute solid particles or liquid droplets, especially when considered an atmospheric pollutant"). In terms of size, the largest inhalable coarse particles are 10 micrometers in diameter; that is one-seventh the diameter of a strand of human hair. 205.203(a) (2012) (The producer must select and implement tillage and cultivation practices); 7 C.F.R. We hold that the phrase "applied to" in section 205.202(b) includes drift as an unintentional application of pesticide. Schroeder v. St. Louis Cnty., 708 N.W.2d 497, 507 (Minn. 2006). 2405, 165 L.Ed.2d 345 (2006) ([T]he question is whether Congress intended its different words to make a legal difference. The district court dismissed these claims on the ground that under Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Coop. Johnson again notified the MDA in 2008 about the cooperative's spraying in July and August. WebCase Brief (19,287) Case Opinion (19,683) Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Coop. Ins. But we conclude that the district court erred in (1) dismissing the Johnsons' nuisance and negligence per se claims to the extent those claims are not based on 7 C.F.R. Specifically, the Johnsons claim that the MDA required them to destroy a portion of their transitional soybeans affected by the alleged 2007 drift because of the presence of dicamba on and visual damage to the soybeans. The district court therefore erred by concluding that the Johnsons' trespass claim fails as a matter of law. But section 205.202(b) does not regulate drift; instead, it provides that prohibited substances are not to be applied to organic fields. . Defendants pesticide drifted and contaminated plaintiffs organic fields. But, as set forth above, the Johnsons' nuisance claim, to the extent it is not based on 7 C.F.R. We review the district court's denial of a party's motion to amend a complaint for abuse of discretion. Fabio v. Bellomo, 504 N.W.2d 758, 761 (Minn. 1993). 541.05, subd. Remanded. Co., 104 Wash.2d 677, 709 P.2d 782 (Wash.1985)). So the only question is whether the cooperative's unlawful spraying of the chemical pesticide causing it to drift onto the Johnsons' otherwise chemical-free fields constitutes an unlawful entry. In summary, we conclude that the Johnsons' trespass claim, and nuisance and negligence per se claims based on 7 C.F.R. Defendant was a company that sprayed pesticide on conventionally farmed fields adjacent to the plaintiffs fields. And both those cases and this one, unlike Wendinger, involve a substantive invasion in which the deposited thing not merely vaporous and dissipating odors are the source of the injury arising out of the alleged trespass. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the conduct about which the Johnsons complain does not constitute a trespass in Minnesota. That regulation reads: Any field or farm parcel from which harvested crops are intended to be sold, labeled, or represented as organic, must: (b) Have had no prohibited substances, as listed in 205.105, applied to it for a period of 3 years immediately preceding harvest of the crop [. The court holds that Minnesota does not recognize claims for trespass by particulate matter. 6503(a) (directing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an organic certification program for producers and handlers of agricultural products). A district court should permit amendments unless it finds that the adverse party would be prejudiced. 205.202(b), fail as a matter of law and therefore amending the complaint to include identical claims based on the 2008 incidents would be futile. 205.202(b), and therefore that OCIA had discretion to decertify the Johnsons' fields. Don't Miss Important Points of Law with BARBRI Outlines (Login Required). The Johnsons claim that the pesticide drift caused them: (1) economic damages because they had to take the contaminated fields out of organic production for 3 years pursuant to 7 C.F.R. See H. Christiansen & Sons Inc., 225 Minn. at 480, 31 N.W.2d at 27374; Sime, 213 Minn. at 481, 7 N.W.2d at 328. Order Online. $250. W. Page Keeton et al., Prosser & Keeton on the Law of Torts, 13, at 70 (5th ed.1984). Email Address: Organic farmers Oluf and Debra Johnson filed a civil suit alleging that the Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company sprayed a chemical pesticide that . Should the agent determine that the residue came from the intentional application of a prohibited substance, the product may not be sold as organic. at 297 (holding that shotgun pellets that landed on the plaintiff's property could constitute a trespass).7. exceeded the 5% tolerance limits established [under the federal organic-certification regulations], produce from these plants could have been sold as `organic'" We review the district court's interpretation of the organic-certification regulation de novo. 80,548, 80,556 (Dec. 21, 2000) (codified at 7 C.F.R. Specifically, the court concluded that the Johnsons had no evidence of damages from any alleged drift because there is no evidence said drift caused [the Johnsons] to lose their organic certification and there is no evidence that [the Johnsons] could not still sell their crops as organic since the levels of prohibited substances were below the applicable tolerance levels. Based on this conclusion, the court granted the Cooperative summary judgment and dismissed the Johnsons' nuisance and negligence per se claims. See Ryan v. Hennepin Cnty., 224 Minn. 444, 448, 29 N.W.2d 385, 387 (1947) ( Injunctive relief is a remedy and not, in itself, a cause of action, and a cause of action must exist before injunctive relief may be granted. (citation omitted)). The Johnsons sought an injunction under the nuisance statute, Minnesota Statutes section 561.01. Under the NOP regulations, crops may not be sold as organic if the crops are shown to have a prohibited substance on them at levels that are greater than 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's tolerance level for that substance. 7 U.S.C. 205, as the "organic food production law" of Minnesota). Filed: August 1, 2012 . But the district court should deny a motion to amend a complaint when the proposed claim could not survive a summary-judgment motion. In Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Co., an organic farmer sued a member-owned farm products and services cooperative on claims including trespass, nuisance, and negligence after pesticide sprayed on conventional farm fields drifted onto the farmer's organic fields. 11 For a similar case see Flansburgh v. See id. The Johnsons claim that while the Cooperative was spraying pesticide onto conventionally farmed fields adjacent to the Johnsons' fields, some pesticide drifted onto and contaminated the Johnsons' organic fields. In sum, we disagree with the district court that chemical pesticide drift cannot, because of its nature, constitute a trespass. of Aitkin, 266 N.W.2d 704, 705 (Minn.1978) (citation omitted); see generally 46 Dunnell Minn. Digest Trespass 1.02 (4th ed.2000). 6508(a). The email address cannot be subscribed. However, if that person were to cause car exhaust, which presumably dissipates quickly in the air, to enter a person's land, it would seem that a trespass would not occur. 6501- 6523, and the associated federal regulations in NOP, 7 C.F.R. You can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our newsletter. Borland, 369 So.2d at 529; accord Bradley, 709 P.2d at 791. Office of Appellate Courts . The Court also held that 7 C.F.R. 802 N.W.2d at 391 (citing 7 C.F.R. 561.01 (2010) (stating that a nuisance action "may be brought by any person whose property is injuriously affected or whose personal enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance"); Anderson, 693 N.W.2d at 189-91 (requiring damages for a negligence-per-se action). 192, 61 L.Ed. The court of appeals reversed. WebCase brief Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Co-op Oil Comp., 817 N.W.2d 693 (2012) Facts: Appellant Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company is a at 388. Prot. WebAssistant Attorneys General . With this regulatory scheme in mind, we turn to the incidents that gave rise to this lawsuit. Relying on cases from other jurisdictions that were explicitly distinguished in Wendinger, the court of appeals held that pesticide drift can interfere with possession and therefore a trespass action can arise from a chemical pesticide being deposited in [discernible] and consequential amounts onto one agricultural property as the result of errant overspray during application directed at another. Id. of Ramsey, 323 N.W.2d 65, 71 (Minn.1982).9. Under the OFPA and the NOP regulations, a producer cannot market its crops as organic, and receive the premium price paid for organic products, unless the producer is certified by an organic certifying agent. Willmar tribune. The distinct language in section 205.202(b) is striking in comparison to these provisions. 205.203(c) (2012) (The producer must manage plant and animal materials). But there is no statute of limitations difference in Minnesota. 6520(a)(2). Under Minnesota trespass law, entry upon the land that interferes with the landowner's right to exclusive possession results in trespass whether that interference was reasonably foreseeable or whether it caused damages. 86, 342 P.2d 790, 793 (Or.1959) (suggesting that one explanation for the historical adherence to a distinction between tangible and intangible invasions of land was that science had not yet peered into the molecular and atomic world of small particles). We remand for further proceedings arising from the reversal. Because the Johnsons' interpretation nullifies part of the OFPA and the NOP, that interpretation is not reasonable, and we decline to adopt it. We hold that it can. 4 BACKGROUND2 I. The certifying agent's erroneous interpretation of section 205.202(b) and the OFPA was the proximate cause of the Johnsons' injury, but the Johnsons cannot hold the Cooperative liable for the certifying agent's erroneous interpretation of the law. favorite this post Jan 16 Couch for sale $250 (wdc > Leesburg) Anderson, 693 N.W.2d at 187. As the Johnsons read section 205.202(b), any amount of pesticide, no matter how it came into contact with the field, would require that the field be taken out of organic production for 3 years. The court looked outside Minnesota to support the holding it reached.8 Id. After a hearing, the district court granted the Cooperative summary judgment on all of the Johnsons' claims, denied the Johnsons' motion to amend, and vacated the temporary injunction.4. As to the trespass claim, the court of appeals concluded that the district court read too much into Wendinger. Because only one of the three chemicals was present based on its testing, the MDA concluded that it can not be proven if the detections were from drift. And even though the testing did not find diflufenzopyr, the MDA still required that the Johnsons plow down a small portion of the soybeans growing in the field because of the presence of dicamba and based on the visual damage observed to this crop. The district court here focused on our use of the term "particulate matter" in our discussing the nature of odors and, relying on the American Heritage Dictionary definition of "particulate matter," it concluded that pesticide drift is particulate matter and therefore not actionable as trespass under Minnesota law. We last address the district court's denial of the Johnsons' permanent injunction request. As is true for the OFPA and the NOP as a whole, section 205.202(c) is also directed at the producer of organic products, not third parties. In addition, the Johnsons' nuisance claim alleges that pesticides below the recommended dosage can spur weed growth and that they have had to take extra measures to control weeds in 2007 and 2008 as a result of drift onto their fields from the Cooperative's actions. But interpreting the regulation to allow for an automatic under-five-percent safe harbor for drift ignores this additional, more specific commentary: We do not speculate as to the Johnsons' damages, but we hold that the district court erroneously rejected their claims for lack of damages on the ground that, by virtue of there having been no finding of five-percent contamination, no damages could be proven. Plaintiffs sued defendant fortrespass. Although neither Wendinger nor other Minnesota cases have directly addressed the issue, the reasoning underlying decisions in similar neighbor-liability cases leads us to conclude that chemical pesticide drift can constitute a trespass. Here, on the record presented at this stage in the litigation, it is not clear to me whether the pesticides in this case constituted a trespass. Under these guidelines, if a prohibited substance is detected on a product sold or labeled as organic, the certifying agent must conduct an investigation to determine whether there has been a violation of the federal requirements. Plaintiffs brought actions ontrespass,nuisanceandnegligence per se. Lake v. WalMart Stores, Inc., 582 N.W.2d 231, 236 (Minn.1998) (concluding that we are not persuaded that a new cause of action should be recognized if little additional protection is afforded plaintiffs). We recognize that we expressly distinguished Borland and Bradley in our discussion in Wendinger and characterized them as examples of cases in which other jurisdictions, unlike Minnesota, had recognized trespass actions by particulate matter. To guard against that result, the courts in both Bradley and Borland required that it be reasonably foreseeable that the intangible matter result in an invasion of plaintiff's possessory interest, and that the invasion caused substantial damages to the plaintiff's property. In the 1990s, Oluf and Debra Johnson began the three-year process of converting their conventional family farm to a certified-organic farm to realize the higher market prices for organic produce and seeds. We address only the allegations here, which go beyond inconsequential over-spray or odor-related intrusion. 205.202(b), the court of appeals disagreed with the district court's interpretation of the NOP regulations. See, e.g., Sime, 213 Minn. at 481, 7 N.W.2d at 328. You have successfully signed up to receive the Casebriefs newsletter. But because the district court failed to consider whether the Johnsons' non trespass claims that were not based on 7 C.F.R. And while wafting odors will not affect the composition of the land, a liquid chemical pesticide or herbicide being sprayed for agricultural purposes will; by design, it descends and clings to soil or plants, killing organisms. Id. See, e.g., Bradley, 709 P.2d at 786, 791 (holding that the 3year trespass statute of limitations applied rather than the 2year nuisance statute of limitations). Because these identify at least potential bases to recover damages, see Highview N. Apartments v. Cnty. 2001). Citizens for a Safe Grant v. Lone Oak Sportsmen's Club, Inc., 624 N.W.2d 796, 805 (Minn.App. 1987). You already receive all suggested Justia Opinion Summary Newsletters. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. We have affirmed as factually supported a negligence judgment against a crop duster after its negligent spraying of herbicides resulted in chemical drift from target fields onto a neighboring field, damaging crops. See 7 C.F.R. It reasoned, "[A]s there is no evidence that chemical residue tests performed on the plants . 7 U.S.C. For example, in Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc., the Alaska Supreme Court recognized that lead particulates and sulfoxide can constitute trespass, reasoning that "if, as a result of the defendant's [smelting] operation, the polluting substance is deposited upon the plaintiffs property, thus interfering with his exclusive possessory interest by causing substantial damage to the Res, then the plaintiff may seek his remedy in trespass." 1849, 173 L.Ed.2d 785 (2009). The MDA informed the Johnsons that there was no tolerance for diflufenzopyr in soybeans (organic, transitional, or conventional) and that, pending chemical testing, the MDA would determine if there [would] be any harvest prohibitions on the Johnsons' soybeans. See 7 U.S.C. 6521(a). We disagree. PDF United States Court of Appeals The plaintiffs were organic farmers who alleged that The OFPA focuses on the producers and handlers of the products that are marketed and sold as organic. We hold that a trespass action can arise from a chemical pesticide being deposited in discernable and consequential amounts onto one agricultural property as the result of errant overspray during application directed at another. Moreover, it is not necessary for us to depart from our traditional understanding of trespass because other causes of actionnuisance and negligenceprovide remedies for the type of behavior at issue in this case. applied to it for a period of 3 years immediately preceding harvest of the crop." Moreover, use of the passive voice generally indicates the focus of the language is whether something happenednot how or why it happened. Dean v. United States, 556 U.S. 568, 572, 129 S.Ct. Consequently, the Cooperative sought a review of the judgment. Id. We next address the district court's conclusion that the Johnsons failed to allege damages, an essential element of their nuisance and negligence-per-se claims. We need not address the cooperative's plausible assertion that incidental and negligible overspray during agricultural application is inevitable, and therefore not actionable. Oil Co. Case below, 817 N.W.2d 693. In both cases, the court of appeals held that such invasions do not, as a matter of law, constitute trespass. The district court granted summary judgment and dismissed the Johnsons' trespass, nuisance, and negligence per se claims. Thus, while the court concludes that invasion by an intangible object never interferes with a property owner's possessory rights, I conclude that in some circumstances it may, particularly when that intangible object is actually a substance that settles on the land and damages it. Regarding the 2007 overspray, the district court dismissed the trespass claim because it concluded that "trespass by particulate matter" is not recognized in Minnesota; it dismissed the nuisance and negligence-per-se claims because the Johnsons presented no evidence that the cooperative's spraying caused damages; and it dismissed the battery claim for lack of evidence of intent. Pages 9. It was also inconsistent with the OFPA because the Johnsons presented no evidence that any residue exceeded the 5 percent tolerance level in 7 C.F.R. 6501(1). In other words, the question presented is whether the Johnsons created an issue for trial that the Cooperative's pesticide drift required the Johnsons to remove their field from organic production due to 7 C.F.R. 6511(c)(2). 802 N.W.2d at 390. 2d 693 (2012) Parties: Oluf Johnson, Respondent, Paynesville It concluded that the claims arising from the 2005 overspray are time barred. 6504, 6513. The court of appeals held that the phrase applied to it in section 205.202(b) included situations in which pesticides unintentionally came into contact with organic fields. While section 205.202(a) implicitly references producers and handlers, by referring to provisions that specifically prescribe their conduct, section 205.202(b) does not do so in any way. Such invasions may interfere with the landowner's use and enjoyment of her land, but those invasions do not require that the landowner share possession of her land in the way that invasions by physical objects do. 442 (1917) (noting that when the meaning of a statute is plain the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms). We therefore hold that the district court did not err in concluding that the Johnsons' trespass claim failed as a matter of law.10. at 389. 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