JBS USA, LLC
30 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (2011–2025)
10 trusted published court opinions across 8 distinct cases · 2 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
Public federal court records list JBS USA, LLC as an employer in 30 distinct federal employment cases between 2011 and 2025.
Of the 10 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 settled, 3 ended in a ruling for the employer, 2 had a mixed result, and 1 were dismissed.
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Retaliation, and Harassment.
Cases were filed across 2 states, most often in CO.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 8 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
JBS USA, LLC appears in 10 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Brown v. JBS USA Food Company (2025) — Settlement. Workers at beef and pork-processing plants claimed that major meat companies, including JBS USA Food Company, illegally coordinated wages to keep worker pay artificially low. Read the ruling.
Brown v. JBS USA Food Company (2024) — Settlement. Employees at major meat processing companies—JBS USA, Perdue Farms, Seaboard Foods, and WMS—filed a lawsuit claiming these companies illegally conspired together to keep worker wages artificially low. The workers alleged this wage-fixing violated employment laws that protect fair compensation. Read the ruling.
Brown v. JBS USA Food Company (2023) — Dismissed. Workers sued JBS USA Food Company, a major meat processing employer, claiming the company illegally fixed wages and engaged in anti-competitive practices. This lawsuit potentially affected hundreds of thousands of employees across the company. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (3 of 10), Retaliation (3 of 10), Harassment (3 of 10). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Retaliation and Harassment.
Published opinions span Colorado (7), Nebraska (1). Colorado is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Colorado rulings and Nebraska rulings.
These published opinions sit within the manufacturing sector, where OSHA whistleblower, FMLA, and disability-accommodation claims are most common.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
10 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
- Settlement / consent decree
- The two sides resolved the dispute by agreement, sometimes with court approval. Most settlements are private and never show up in published opinions.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.