Smith v. Vachris
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Smith v. Vachris is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 04, 2022 and June 18, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “and has filed its first lawsuit, Smith v. Vachris”; “LIC has filed four lawsuits: (1) Smith v. Vachris”. It most often appears alongside 1DaySooner, acanthamoeba keratitis, ACX.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 04, 2022
- Last seen: June 18, 2025
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- 1DaySooner (2 shared issues)
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- acanthamoeba keratitis (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- African Swine Fever (2 shared issues)
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- Alice Evans (2 shared issues)
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- ALLFED (2 shared issues)
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- ClearerThinking.org (2 shared issues)
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- Congress (2 shared issues)
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- Crowdfight (2 shared issues)
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- David Bahry (2 shared issues)
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- FOX Business (2 shared issues)
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25: Sue Factory Farms That Are Illegally Abusing Chickens (8/10) Legal Impact For Chickens has since raised $800,000 (more than 10x their original ACX grant), is now a two-employee organization, and has filed its first lawsuit, Smith v. Vachris, which has received coverage in Washington Post, FOX Business, etc (if we rely on coverage in FOX to call out abusive chicken farmers, is that the FOX guarding the henhouse?) They are looking to hire another litigator, see ad here.
Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is so grateful to ACX for launching us, and to all the ACX readers who have supported us! Thus far, LIC has filed four lawsuits: (1) Smith v. Vachris, the shareholder derivative case against Costco’s executives for chicken neglect, which was mentioned in The Washington Post, Fox Business, CNN Business, Meatingplace, and a viral TikTok. (2) LIC v. Case Farms, a cruelty suit against a major KFC supplier, which is currently pending before the North Carolina Court of Appeals. (3) Animal Outlook v. Harvey’s Market, which successfully stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. And (4) LIC v. Alexandre, a cruelty suit against an abusive dairy, which is currently pending before a California court. LIC has also sponsored an undercover investigation of poultry-giant Foster Farms, leading to a currently ongoing sheriff’s-office investigation. LIC got a California caterer to drop foie gras with a simple cease-and-desist letter. And LIC established a new potential avenue to create consequences for animal abuse: through an amicus brief at sentencing for the violation of another law. LIC also received a recommendation from Animal Charity Evaluators!