Supreme Court Declines Challenges To Restrict Sales From Animals In Confined Housing

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider challenges to laws in California and Massachusetts restricting the sale of egg, pork and veal products from animals in confined housing systems. The court was asked to consider challenges from other states contending that the laws interfered with interstate commerce. Attorneys general from 13 states, led by Indiana, asked the Supreme Court to hear the case against the Massachusetts law, while Missouri led the challenge against the California law. California’s law took effect in 2015; the Massachusetts law passed in 2016 and is scheduled to go into effect in 2022. The high court also declined to hear an appeal against a California ban on the sale of foie gras.