ARMOUR AND COMPANY v. BALL

Civ. A. No. 6250.

337 F.Supp. 938 (1971)

ARMOUR AND COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. B. Dale BALL, Director of Department of Agriculture of the State of Michigan, and Ronald M. Leach, Acting Chief of Food Inspection, Division of the Michigan Department of Agriculture, Defendants, Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of the State of Michigan, et al., Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

November 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Foster, Sr., Foster, Lindemer, Swift & Collins, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiffs.

E. G. Robbins, Chicago, Ill., for Armour & Co.

Louis R. Simpson, Chicago, Ill., for Wilson & Co.

Byron M. Crippin, Jr., Austin, Minn., for Geo. A. Hormel & Co.

Frank Kelley, Atty. Gen., Maurice M. Moule, Lansing, Mich., for defendants.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Solomon Bienenfeld, Lansing, Mich., for State of Mich.

Stephen I. Schlossberg, Detroit, Mich., for International Union, UAW.

Kent Frizzell, Atty. Gen., Edward G. Collister, Jr., Topeka, Kan., for State of Kan.

John Milanowski, U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for the United States, amicus curiae.


OPINION

FOX, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs Armour and Company, Wilson and Co., Inc., and Geo. A. Hormel and Company brought this action against B. Dale Ball, the Director of the Michigan Department of Agriculture, and Ronald M. Leach, Acting Chief of the Food Inspection Division of the Michigan Department of Agriculture. They request the court to enjoin the defendants from enforcing the marketing, labeling, packaging and ingredient provisions of the Michigan Comminuted...

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