United States Supreme Court
National Meat Association v. Harris, 10-224
In a suit by a trade association representing meatpackers and processors to enjoin enforcement of a California statute affecting swine slaughterhouses, judgment of the Ninth Circuit is reversed and the case remanded for entry of an injunction, where the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) expressly preempts the California statute because the FMIA regulates slaughterhouses’ handling and treatment of nonambulatory pigs from the moment of their delivery through the end of the meat production process, and the California statute endeavors to regulate the same thing, at the same time, in the same place, except by imposing different requirements.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/23/2012
- Published 01/23/2012
Judges
- Kagan
Court
- United States Supreme Court