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NATIONAL MEAT ASS'N v. DEUKMEJIAN

No. 83-1979.

743 F.2d 656 (1984)

NATIONAL MEAT ASSOCIATION, American Meat Institute, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. George DEUKMEJIAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1984.

Judgment Affirmed January 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hershel Shanks, James M. Kefauver, Glassie, Pewett, Dudley, Beebe & Shanks, Washington, D.C., Don T. Hibner, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John N. Politis, Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, Los Angeles, Cal., for amicus curiae Meat Importers.

Roderick E. Walston, Office of the Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before MERRILL, FARRIS, and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges.

Judgment Affirmed January 7, 1985. See 105 S.Ct. 768.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.

The National Meat Association, the American Meat Institute, and eleven beef processors appeal the district court's ruling upholding the constitutionality of a California tax on imported processed beef. 562 F.Supp. 357 (1983). We find that the California tax violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against interstate...

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