National Family Farm Coalition v. Vilsack

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 NATIONAL FAMILY FARM COALITION Case No. 21-cv-05695-JD et al., 8 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE SUMMARY JUDGMENT 9 v. 10 TOM VILSACK et al., 11 Defendants. 12 13 In 2004, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), housed within the U.S. 14 Department of Agriculture (USDA), announced the intention to revisit regulations governing 15 genetically engineered (GE) organisms. APHIS published a notice of proposed rulemaking in 16 2008 that kicked off over a decade of activity and concluded in a final rule the agency…