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State-By-State Guide to Ag-Gag Legislation - April 7 2025

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Several states have made attempts to provide the animal production industry protection against unlawful interference by enacting so-called Ag-Gag laws. A wave of litigation is challenging these laws as unconstitutional,...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Supreme Court Narrows Dormant Commerce Clause Protections Against Regulation of Business in Decision Affirming California Pork Law

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The dormant Commerce Clause is one of the oldest constitutional doctrines, dating to the early 1800s. The Commerce Clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the dormant...more

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U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s Proposition 12 law regarding animal welfare

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The Supreme Court issued a decision on May 11, 2023, upholding California’s Proposition 12 against a challenge under the U.S. Constitution’s Dormant Commerce Clause. Proposition 12 is a ballot initiative passed by the state’s...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Supreme Court’s Review of California’s Proposition 12 Could Have Implications for State Climate, Energy, and Public Health...

On Monday, March 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear industry’s challenge to California’s Proposition 12, a law restricting certain confinement practices in industrial animal agriculture. The case, styled National...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to California’s Farm Confinement Law

On March 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of National Pork Producers, et. al. v. Karen Ross, 21-468.   The order means that the Supreme Court will...more

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Keep Makin’ Bacon” Indiana’s Right to Farm Act Statute Upheld As Constitutional

Indiana, like every other State, has adopted a Right to Farm Act to “reduce the loss to the state of its agricultural resources by limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may be deemed to be a...more

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Everything But The Kitchen Sink: Advocacy Groups Cite A Number Of Constitutional Challenges To North Carolina’s Expansion Of The...

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In the ongoing controversy over a series of nuisance suits regarding eastern North Carolinian hog-farming operations, a collection of advocacy groups have now filed a constitutional challenge to the North Carolina General...more

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