The Ninth Circuit Court has upheld a lower court ruling in support of the beef checkoff program. R-CALF USA began this legal action in 2016 claiming the beef checkoff violated the First Amendment rights of beef producers. The Ninth Circuit agreed with a lower court ruling that determined state beef checkoffs operated with oversight from the federal government and qualified as government speech and does not violate the rights of free speech.
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