United States Ninth Circuit

Section 144 of the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act insulates state pooling agreements for milk processing from commerce clause challenges.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2001
• Decided 08/09/2001
• Published 08/09/2001

Judges

• SEDWICK, District Judge:, Before:  SNEED and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and SEDWICK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles H. English, Jr.,Thelen, Reid & Priest, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  John H. Vetne, Newburyport, Massachusetts, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Warren W. Goedert, Nevada State Dairy Commission, Reno, Nevada;  Robert F. Bony, Nevada Attorney General's Office, Reno, Nevada, for the amicus cuiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrea Hackett Henningsen, Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, San Francisco, California, William Lockyer, Attorney General, and Bruce Reeves, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the defendants-appellees.