Mutual Orange Distributors v. Agricultural Prorate Commission

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, lemon growers in and shippers from the State of California, seek to restrain permanently the enforcement of a prorate lemon marketing program prescribed under the authority of the California Agricultural Prorate Act, Chap. 754, p. 1969, Cal. Stats. 1933, as amended, St. 1935, pp. 1526, 2087, hereinafter called the Act. They claim that' the enforcement of the program would irreparably damage them and submit them to penalties should they violate it and would violate the commerce clause of the United States Constitution, article 1, § 8, cl. 3, and would…