Cage-free chickens inside a facility at Hilliker’s Ranch Fresh Eggs in Lakeside, Calif., on April 19, 2022. Mike Blake/Reuters
A federal judge in Los Angeles tossed out the Trump administration’s attempt to bring down the price of eggs by challenging California’s strict egg production laws March 18, finding the government failed to prove it suffered injury from the state laws.
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, dismissed the case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice but gave the government two weeks to file an amended complaint that shows injury.
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