The Supreme Court heard arguments regarding California’s Proposition 12, which mandates stringent housing requirements for pregnant sows. California Solicitor General Michael Mongan said this initiative won’t affect pork markets outside of California. “California voters chose to pay higher prices to serve their local interest in refusing to provide a market to products they viewed as morally objectional.” Department of Justice Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler argued Prop 12 would disrupt interstate commerce and the question of morality should be a state-by-state basis. “This case turns on the fact that the product was produced a certain way out of state before being brought into the state. That is interstate commerce.”
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