Pork producers lose challenge to California’s farm animal confinement initiative
Story Date: 4/30/2020

 

Source: COURTHOUSE NEWS, 4/27/20

 Pork producers’ challenge to a voter-approved law requiring pigs raised for consumption and sold in California to have space to move around before they are slaughtered was struck down by a federal judge Monday. U.S. District Judge Thomas Whelan, dismissed without prejudice the lawsuit by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation, finding the farm trade groups failed to allege Proposition 12 violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

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