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Livestock

U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s pig confinement law

Dissent suggests 'substantial burden against interstate commerce'

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Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a […] Read more
The Canadian Pork Council has filed an argument in U.S. Supreme Court with a pork coalition in Mexico and the Illinois Pork Producers opposing Proposition 12.
Livestock, News

Canadian pork producers have voice at U.S. Supreme Court

Joint submission filed in appeal of California’s Proposition 12

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The voice of pork producers across Canada was heard Oct. 11 as the United States Supreme Court began hearing arguments against California’s controversial Proposition 12. The law, initially approved by the state’s voters in 2018, governs the management and housing of any farm livestock – within California’s boundaries and beyond – that are sold as […] Read more
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Crops

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to toss Roundup suits

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Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Bayer’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup herbicide causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned away a Bayer appeal and left in place a lower court decision that […] Read more
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Crops

Bayer takes battle over Roundup cancer claims to U.S. Supreme Court

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Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer, trying to contain billions of dollars in legal costs, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court verdict that upheld damages to a customer blaming his cancer on the German group’s glyphosate-based herbicides. Bayer last week lost a third appeal against verdicts that sided with […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

U.S. Supreme Court backs refineries in biofuel waiver dispute

Top court overturns ruling against EPA granting waivers

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Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday made it easier for small oil refineries to win exemptions from a federal law requiring increasing levels of ethanol and other renewable fuels to be blended into their products, a major setback for biofuel producers. The justices overturned a lower court decision that had faulted the U.S. […] Read more
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Crops

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear biofuel waiver case

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Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court ruling that severely limited the government’s powers to exempt small refineries from the nation’s biofuels law, rekindling a long-running dispute between the oil and corn industries. The decision came after appeals by refining companies that argued the 10th Circuit Court’s decision […] Read more

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