COOL plaintiffs appeal ruling
September 13, 2013 | 05:18 PM
The American Meat Institute and other plaintiffs who were denied a preliminary injunction in their country-of-origin-labeling suit appealed that ruling Thursday, while advocates for labeling said they would stay active in the case.
The AMI suit seeks to stop the Agriculture Department from implementing its latest version of country-of-origin-labeling for red meat, and the plaintiffs had sought to stop the provision from being enacted while the suit was being heard.
Plaintiffs are the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Pork Producers Council, American Meat Institute, American Association of Meat Processors, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Canadian Pork Council, North American Meat Association, Southwest Meat Association and Mexico’s National Confederation of Livestock Organizations.
The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, the National Farmers Union, the American Sheep Industry Association and the Consumer Federation of America, which had been granted the right to intervene in the case, also announced Thursday that they “will actively participate in the appeal process to defend the correctness of the district court’s denial of the preliminary injunction motion.”
The appeal was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on Wednesday.
The AMI suit seeks to stop the Agriculture Department from implementing its latest version of country-of-origin-labeling for red meat, and the plaintiffs had sought to stop the provision from being enacted while the suit was being heard.
Plaintiffs are the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Pork Producers Council, American Meat Institute, American Association of Meat Processors, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Canadian Pork Council, North American Meat Association, Southwest Meat Association and Mexico’s National Confederation of Livestock Organizations.
The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, the National Farmers Union, the American Sheep Industry Association and the Consumer Federation of America, which had been granted the right to intervene in the case, also announced Thursday that they “will actively participate in the appeal process to defend the correctness of the district court’s denial of the preliminary injunction motion.”
The appeal was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on Wednesday.
