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NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL v. BERGLAND

Civ. No. 79-431-C.

484 F.Supp. 540 (1980)

NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL, an Iowa Corporation, Charles Grassley, Tom Hagedorn and Steven Symms, Plaintiffs, National Independent Meat Packers Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Bob BERGLAND, Secretary of Agriculture, Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services, and Donald Houston, Acting Administrator, Food Safety & Quality Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, C. D.

February 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald P. Colleton, Abramson & Fox, Chicago, Ill., Charles S. Crook, III, Beving, Swanson & Forrest, Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiffs.

Edwin H. Pewett, Hershel Shanks, James B. Davis and James M. Kefauver, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Roxanne Barton Conlin, U. S. Atty., Des Moines, Iowa, Theodore C. Hirt, and Gregory Cooper, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

RULING AND ORDER

STUART, District Judge.

This is an action for judicial review of agency action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 et seq. Plaintiffs are three members of the United States House of Representatives and two trade associations representing pork producers and meat packers. Defendants are the Secretary of Agriculture, the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services, and the Acting...

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