Dodge County, Incorporated is narrative nonfiction. It’s a compelling legal drama recounting my family’s three rounds of litigation against the county board in Dodge County, Minnesota, in efforts to prevent a corporate factory farm from going up across the road from our intergenerational family farm. With the factual rigor of an attorney and the passion of a farmer’s daughter, I weave together my family’s struggles to fight corporate injustices in rural America and the larger story of corporate livestock production in the United States: the air and water pollution, the cancer clusters, the destruction of local communities and economies, and the erosion of the democratic process.

This CLE is co-sponsored by the Animal Law Section and Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law Section.