SCOTUS negs Hawley's eggs: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Missouri attorney general's hen-house appea
SCOTUS negs Hawley's eggs: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Missouri attorney general's hen-house appeal
Another court ruling, another goose egg for the Missouri attorney general’s office and its strange quest to mess with California’s hen-house laws.
This time it was the U.S. Supreme Court telling Missouri to go cluck itself. State Attorney General Josh Hawley wanted the justices to overturn a federal appeals court's decision upholding a California food-safety statute. The justices declined to take up the case.
By demurring, the Supreme Court seems at last to have ended the great Missouri egg war, which was started a few years ago by Hawley’s predecessor, Democrat Chris Koster. Then again, we've declared the quixotic crusade dead before, only to have it rise up again, like some demonic soufflé.
The back story sounds like legal mumbo jumbo and smells like politics. In his quest to appeal to rural Missouri, Koster took exception to a California law that requires out-of-state egg producers to meet the same standards mandated for California egg producers if they want to market their products there. Basically, this means everyone wanting to sell eggs in California must accommodate hens with cages large enough for the birds to stand up and spread their wings.
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