U.S. Supreme Court Declines Challenge to Mass. Law

US Supreme Court rejects pork industry challenge to Mass. animal welfare law

The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review a pork industry appeal seeking to strike down a Massachusetts animal welfare law, handing a major victory to animal rights advocates.

Supreme Court denies pork industry appeal of animal welfare law

Amid a flurry of high-profile US Supreme Court rulings, a case that the high court refused to take up has animal welfare advocates claiming a big win.  The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition to review the case of Triumph Foods, LLC v. Campbell, which sought to override a Massachusetts’ animal welfare law known as Question 3. Petitioners wanted the high court to find that the federal law preempts the rules imposed by Massachusetts. The la…

U.S. Supreme Court Declines Challenge to Mass. Law

BOSTON – The United States Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a case challenging a Massachusetts law, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which voters 78 percent of voters approved in 2016. The law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2022. Justices Samuel Alito and John Kavanaugh voted to grant the request and hear the case. Triumph Foods, LLC, based in Missouri, challenged the 2016 approved ballot question, Question 3, Minimum Size Requirem…