MICHIGAN PORK PRODUCERS v. CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY

Case No. 1:01-CV-34.

229 F.Supp.2d 772 (2002)

MICHIGAN PORK PRODUCERS, et al., Plaintiffs/Intervenors/Cross-Defendants, v. CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY FARMS, et al., Defendants/Intervenors/Cross-Plaintiffs, v. Ann Veneman, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, et al., Cross-Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

October 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Charles Timmons, Troy W. Haney, John R. Kramer and Edward M. Mansfield, Grand Rapids, MI, for Plaintiffs/Intervenors/Cross-Defendants.

Susan E. Stokes, David R. Moeller and Christopher M. Bzdok, Traverse City, MI, for Defendants/Intervenors/Cross-Plaintiffs.

W. Francesca Ferguson, Thomas Millet and Carolyn McKee, Washington, DC, for Cross-Defendants.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

"[T]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Act for Establishment of Religious Freedom (1786), codified at Va.Code Ann. § 57-1 (Miche 2002).

INTRODUCTION

This matter is before the Court on Defendants/Interveners/Cross-Plaintiffs Campaign for Family Farms ("CFF") and its named...

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