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AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE v. BALL

No. G 75-39.

550 F.Supp. 285 (1982)

AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE, Plaintiff, v. Dale B. BALL, Replaced by Dean M. Pridgeon, Director of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and Edward C. Heffron, Chief of the Food Inspection Division of the Michigan Department of Agriculture, Defendants.

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

August 31, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stanley Stroud, Washington, D.C., David VanderHaagen, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiff.

Henry J. Boynton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants.

John Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., Ronald D. Cipolia, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Regulatory Div., Andrea Bateman, Regulatory Div., OGC, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dennis G. Linder, Branch Director, Theodore C. Hirt, Attys., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae U.S.

OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, American Meat Institute, a national trade association of the meat packing industry, has charged that Section 4a of Michigan's Comminuted Meat Law, M.S.A. § 12.964(4.1) M.C.L.A. § 289.584a is unconstitutional.1 AMI alleges that the placard requirement for certain comminuted meat products violates the Supremacy Clause by prescribing a labeling requirement that is "in addition...

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