Source:Dan Flyn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 3/1/18


A federal judge has decided not to toss out a lawsuit about the constitutionality of Iowa’s 6-year-old “agricultural production facility fraud” statute, meaning the issue will very likely go to trial next year. Federal District Court Judge James E. Gritzner, in a 38-page opinion, on Feb. 27 denied the crux of a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the Hawkeye State. Gritzner, who is on senior status as a judge for the Southern District of Iowa, is allowing the challenge of the law to go forward.

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