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'California Knows Best:' SCOTUS says California can use Prop 12 to regulate pork producers across the country
Dissenting justices warned California should now expect other states to respond in kind, following California's "blueprint" to use state laws and market power to bypass Congress and bend the rest of the country to the will of voters in just one or a handful of states -
Fifteen states to California: Don't tell our farmers how to treat animals
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – California is trying to impose its own animal-confinement agenda on farmers in the rest of the country, say the Republican attorneys general of 15 states. -
Hog farmers facing lawsuits, eight-figure verdicts worried judge will silence them again
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is scheduled next week to hear arguments over a broad gag order issued by a judge overseeing a series of nuisance lawsuits against North Carolina hog farms that threatened to muzzle farmers and industry organizations opposed to the litigation. -
Congressman says nuisance suits against agri-business are national threat
Recent nuisance lawsuits against agri-business in North Carolina are a national threat to agriculture, said U.S. Rep. David Rouzer (R-7th-NC) -
Gathering set to discuss ways to stymie spread of nuisance lawsuits against agri-business
RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - A major gathering of politicians and representatives of state agencies will convene Friday for a round table discussion on how to stymie the spread of nuisance lawsuits against agri-business companies and producers. -
Va. attorney general comments on Supreme Court's rejection of Chesapeake Bay cleanup case
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) — Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office announced that the U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal of the American Farm Bureau vs. EPA case, which sought to end work to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.