United States Fifth Circuit

A Louisiana statute regulating the class of fish to which the "catfish" label could be applied violates the dormant Foreign Commerce Clause. Louisiana's statute regulating the use of the word "Cajun" on food products, as applied to plaintiff, a seafood importer and distributor, violated plaintiff's First Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2006
• Published 05/05/2006

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Davis Marx (argued), Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis, Breslin, Murray, Recile & Griffith, Metairie, LA, for Piazza's Seafood World., Clark A. Richard (argued), Clarence James Gelpi, Dan Brian Zimmerman, David Sean McFadden, Gelpi & Associates, New Orleans, LA, Houston T. Penn, Baton Rouge, LA, for Odom.