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Litigation

Sep. 14, 2012

Federal chicken lawsuit lays egg, earning dismissal

How much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette? In a sense, that was the crux of a Riverside County egg farmer's lawsuit that a federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed with prejudice on Wednesday.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - How much room does a chicken need to do a pirouette?


In a sense, that was the crux of a Riverside County egg farmer's lawsuit that a federal judge dismissed with prejudice on Wednesday, bringing to an end the latest skirmish between animal rights advocates and the state's agribusiness industry.


William Cramer, who owns an egg-laying hen farm, had filed the suit in an effor...

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