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SYNGENTA SEEDS, INC. v. COUNTY OF KAUAI

Nos. 14-16833, 14-16848.

842 F.3d 669 (2016)

SYNGENTA SEEDS, INC., a Delaware corporation; Syngenta Hawaii, LLC; Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., an Iowa Corporation; Agrigenetics, Inc., a Delaware corporation; BASF Plant Science LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF KAUAI, Defendant-Appellant, and Ka Makani Ho'opono; Center for Food Safety; Pesticide Action Network North America; Surfrider Foundation, Intervenor-Defendants. Syngenta Seeds, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Syngenta Hawaii, LLC; Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., an Iowa corporation; Agrigenetics, Inc., a Delaware corporation; BASF Plant Science LP, a Delaware limited partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. County of Kauai, Defendant, and Ka Makani Ho'opono; Center for Food Safety; Pesticide Action Network North America; Surfrider Foundation, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 18, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Minkin (argued), Jesse J. T. Smith , and Troy H.H. Andrade , McCorriston Miller Mukai McKinnon LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Defendant-Appellant.

Paul H. Achitoff (argued), Earthjustice, Honolulu, Hawaii; Sylvia Shih-Yau Wu and George A. Kimbrell , Center for Food Safety, San Francisco, California; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

Margery S. Bronster (argued), Donna C. Marron , and Rex Y. Fujichaku , Bronster Fujichaku Robbins , Honolulu, Hawaii; Christopher Landau (argued), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C.; Clair Wong Black and Paul Alston , Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Consuelo M. Callahan and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Kauai County passed Ordinance 960 to regulate pesticides and genetically engineered (GE) plants. The Ordinance requires commercial farmers to maintain "buffer zones" between crops to which pesticides are applied and certain surrounding properties, provide notifications...

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