A ballot about native perceptions over the Jan. 4 search warrant of Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania farm discovered 85.3 % suppose it was “authorities overreach.”

However Miller is probably going feeling much more heat and fuzzy about $202,460 being raised from his pals and supporters since Jan. 4 towards a present purpose of $350,000.

The present fundraising is to assist Miller with the state civil motion he’s going through regarding the Jan. 4 search warrant. His first courtroom look is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 29 earlier than Choose Sponaugle within the Lancaster County Court docket of Frequent Pleas, 50 North Duke Road, Lancaster, PA. 

Miller can also be letting his supporters know they’re “welcome to attend.”

Fundraising when he’s the goal of litigation is nothing new for Miller. Throughout his latest federal case that ended final yr, Miller collected greater than $500,000 from his community of supporters.

Miller just lately wrote on his present fund-raising web site: “It has been a difficult month right here on the farm. We’re at present not allowed to promote any uncooked dairy merchandise, and it breaks our hearts that the state of Pennsylvania is forcing us to show so lots of you away whenever you beg us for the meals you depend upon in your well being. This ruling was put in place earlier than our legal professional, Robert Barnes, might make any argument or assertion on our behalf. We hope and pray that he’ll have the ability to present the Court docket the reality and that we will provide your wants once more”

 Till the Feb. 29 listening to, Miller, his spouse, and numerous companies are prohibited  from producing or promoting uncooked milk and uncooked milk merchandise due to their ”fast and irreparable harm.”

An order by state Choose Thomas Sponaugie grants the request of the Pennsylvania Legal professional Common, who has a pending civil motion earlier than the courtroom, to completely stop Miller and his enterprise enterprises from promoting unpasteurized, uncooked milk and unregulated merchandise as a result of he’s endangering public well being.

The decide’s order additionally requires Miller and his companies to allow the State Division of Agriculture full entry to his information and check merchandise.

Miller additional should notify his prospects that his merchandise have been traced to 2 latest foodborne sicknesses. Additional, the decide ordered him to inform his prospects that uncooked milk collected from Miller’s farm on Jan. 4 below a search warrant examined constructive for Listeria.

The legal professional common has charged Miller with violating a number of state meals security legal guidelines.

Miller was final a defendant in a federal civil motion introduced after 2016 by the Division of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of USDA’s Meals Security and Inspection Service (FSIS). The federal quotation ended with Miller and his legal professional signing a prolonged Consent Decree 2023 that guarantees compliance with meals security legal guidelines.

Miller’s uncooked milk in 2016 was discovered to be genetically much like the micro organism in two listeriosis circumstances, together with a loss of life case.

For a time in federal courtroom, Miller claimed he was not topic to federal  jurisdiction as a result of he was a “sovereign citizen.”

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