PEOPLE EX REL. LOCKYER v. SHAMROCK FOODS CO.

No. S082325.

101 Cal.Rptr.2d 200 (2000)

24 Cal.4th 415

11 P.3d 956

The PEOPLE ex rel. Bill LOCKYER, as Attorney General, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SHAMROCK FOODS COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 6, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeCuir & Somach, Somach, Simmons & Dunn, Michael E. Vergara, Sacramento; Blodgett, Makechnie & Vetne, John H. Vetne, Newburyport, MA; Landels, Ripley & Diamond, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach and Sanford Svetcov, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Roderick E. Walston and Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Charles W. Getz IV and Mary E. Hackenbracht, Assistant Attorneys General, Randall B. Christison and Mark J. Urban, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy, John J. Vlahos and Robert L. Rusky, San Francisco, for Californians for Nutritious Milk, California Dietetics Association, Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education, Choices for Children, Bert D. Johnson, Frederick R. Singer, Jo Ann Hattner, Ann M. Coulston, Western United Dairymen and Alliance of Western Milk Producers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Grant Woods, Attorney (Arizona) and Thomas J. Dennis, Assistant Attorney General, for States of Arizona and Iowa as Amici Curiae.


MOSK, J.

Milk and milk products constitute an important source of nutrition for the people of the State of California, supplying various essential nutrients. They also amount to a substantial economic resource, since the state's dairy industry, which is the nation's largest, is the state's leading agricultural enterprise.

The cause before us involves milk, in the form commonly called whole milk, and milk products...

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