CLOVER LEAF CREAMERY CO. v. STATE

No. 48827.

289 N.W.2d 79 (1979)

CLOVER LEAF CREAMERY COMPANY, et al., Respondents, v. STATE of Minnesota, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1979.

Certiorari Granted March 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Byron E. Starns, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., and Kenneth E. Raschke, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for appellant.

Briggs & Morgan, Leonard J. Keyes, Douglas L. Skor and Andrea M. Bond, St. Paul, for respondents.

James D. Miller, Minneapolis, for Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, amicus curiae.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.


Certiorari Granted March 31, 1980. See 100 S.Ct. 1596.

PETERSON, Justice.

Defendant, state of Minnesota, appeals from the trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiffs,1 holding L. 1977, c. 268 (the Act), to be unconstitutional.2 We affirm the trial court's judgment and hold that the Act violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the...

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