North Carolina’s ‘civil’ approach to ‘ag gag’ getting federal review
Story Date: 6/11/2019

 

Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 6/10/19


PETA v. Joshua H. Stein, the North Carolina case involving a civil statute, is supposed to wrap up its discovery phase this month. The case over the Tar Heel state’s 4-year-old Property Protection Act was sent back to the U.S. Distict Court for the Middle District of North Carolina this past December by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. At that time, Judge Thomas D. Schroeder granted the defense motion to dismiss three counts of the amended complaints that it said violated the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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