NATIONAL FARMERS ORG'N v. COM'R OF AGRICULTURE

Civ. No. H 76-457.

496 F.Supp. 509 (1980)

NATIONAL FARMERS ORGANIZATION, IRASBURG v. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

July 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Langrock, Langrock, Sperry, Parker & Stahl, Middlebury, Vt., for plaintiff.

Richard F. Webb, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge:

INTRODUCTION

This case is a commerce clause challenge to the statutory scheme which empowers the Connecticut Commissioner of Agriculture to register and inspect both local and out-of-state dairy farms before milk originating at those farms may be sold in Connecticut. "The milk industry," as Justice Frankfurter long ago observed, "is peculiarly subject to internecine warfare," H. P...

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