Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Jacobsen

Appellants, engaged in the business of growing, packing, and marketing in commerce, Florida avocados, brought this action in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California to enjoin respondents, state officers of California, from enforcing § 792 of the California Agricultural Code.1

Section 792 prohibits, among other things, the importation into or sale in California of avocados containing “less than 8 per cent of oil, by weight of the avocado excluding the skin and seed.” The complaint alleged, inter alia, that the varieties of avocados grown in Florida do not…