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SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC. v. MILLER

No. 4:02-CV-90324.

241 F.Supp.2d 978 (2003)

SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC., Murphy Farms, LLC, and Prestage-Stoecker Farms, Inc., Farms, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Thomas J. MILLER, Attorney General of the State of Iowa in his Official Capacity, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, Central Division.

January 22, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Updegraff, Steven C. Schoenebaum, Harold N. Schneebeck, Jr., Brian P. Ricket, Brown Winick Graves Gross Baskerville & Schoenebaum PLC, Des Moines, IA, Warren E. Zirkle, McGuire Woods LLP, McLean, VA, E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., J. William Boland, Robert L. Hodges, William H. Baxter, II, McGuirewoods LLP, Richmond, VA, Robert P. Malloy, Malloy Law Firm, Goldfield, IA, for Plaintiffs.

Gordon E. Allen, Stephen H. Moline, Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Jon K. Lauck, Johnson Heidepriem Miner Marlow & Janklow LLP, Sioux Falls, SD, for Defendant.

Eldon L. McAfee, Beving Swanson & Forrest PC, Des Moines, IA, for Amicus.

E.C. Kellenberger, Algona, IA, Pro se.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PRATT, District Judge.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization. Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture, 457 (Jan. 13, 1840).

The question today is whether an Iowa statute that forbids pork processors from directly or indirectly owning, operating, or controlling pork production in the State...

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