Legal Opinion
Dean Foods Company v. Ben Brancel, Secretary of the Wisconsin Dept. Of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 3, 1999No. 98-3797PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Dean Foods Company (“Dean Foods”) sued the defendant Ben Brancel (“the Secretary”) in his official capacity to prevent him from enforcing Wisconsin milk-pricing regulations against transactions Dean Foods claimed took place in Illinois. After extensive fact-finding, the district court judge granted the plaintiffs motion for injunctive relief, holding that because these transactions took place outside Wis-. consin (and in Illinois), the Wisconsin regulations could not be enforced because of the Constitutional ban on extraterritorial legislation. The district court…
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