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Litigation

Oct. 23, 2008

Egg Board's Ballot Fight Gets Crushed

A government agency stepped over the line when it used federal money to campaign against a California ballot proposition, a District Court judge has ruled.

By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A government agency stepped over the line when it used federal money to campaign against a California ballot proposition, a District Court judge has ruled.

Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from allowing the American Egg Board to use federal funding to campaign against California's Proposition 2, a ballot measure designed to ban tightly caging hens at egg ...

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