U.S. Supreme Court hears challenge to CA pig law requiring more space
The case is important to Iowa, the nation's leading pork producer, potentially blocking its sales in the nation's most populous state.
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The case is important to Iowa, the nation's leading pork producer, potentially blocking its sales in the nation's most populous state.
The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to draw a line for when a state can regulate commerce beyond its borders in a challenge to a California law directing the care of pigs and hogs used for pork.
The case is important to Iowa, the nation's leading pork producer, potentially blocking its sales in the nation's most populous state.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed the constitutionality of a California law banning the sale of pork from pigs confined in spaces with too little space to move freely that industry groups have said impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers.
The case pitted most of the pork producers in the U.S. against a California law enacted by referendum by lopsided margins.