Supreme Court rejects challenge to California’s landmark egg sales law
Staff Writer | June 6, 2017
In an important outcome for farm animal protection, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition for certiorari by six ag-state attorneys general and governors that sought to overturn California’s landmark egg sales law, AB 1437. Article continues below
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, said, “We commend the decision, which sends a clear message that other states have no business trying to drag down California’s high ethical standards in preventing cruelty and reducing food safety risks.”
In 2010, the California legislature passed AB 1437, which stipulated that eggs sold in the state of California must come from housing systems that do not cruelly confine birds.
The law went into effect on January 1, 2015, the same day as the related ballot measure, Proposition 2, which was supported by nearly two thirds of California voters, and which mandated that laying hens, breeding sows, and veal calves to “stand up, lie down, turn around freely, and extend their limbs.”
Proposition 2 has already been upheld against three separate challenges in state and federal court from egg companies who want to keep hens jammed in cages so tightly they can barely move.
The ruling reaffirms a November, 2016 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, in which the court determined that speculative harm to a few producers in plaintiff states was not enough to bring a case in the name of all of the citizens of those states.
That court found that the law does not unlawfully discriminate against out of state producers because it does not distinguish among eggs based on their state of origin. ■ What to read next
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