United States Seventh Circuit

In a constitutional challenge to a statute banning the slaughter and export of horsemeat for human consumption by a producer and exporter of horsemeat, district court denial of an injunction pending appeal is reversed where the plaintiff would suffer a great harm if the statute were enforced, and plaintiff had shown enough chance of success on the merits for the balance of harms to entitle it to an injunction pending an expedited appeal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/16/2007
• Decided 08/07/2007
• Published 08/07/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Philip Calabrese (argued), Squire Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Robert C. Pottinger, Barrick, Switzer, Long, Balsley & Van Evera, Rockford, IL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Farrell, DeKalb County State's Attorney's Office, Sycamore, IL, Mary E. Walsh (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.