Delano Farms Co. v. Cal. Table Grape Commission

*1209 Pursuant to the Ketchum Act ( Food & Agr. Code, § 65500 et seq. ; sometimes hereafter referred to as the Act), the *1210 activities of the California Table Grape Commission (sometimes hereafter referred to as the Commission) are funded by assessments on shipments of California table grapes. Plaintiffs and appellants are five growers and shippers of these grapes. They contend that the collection of assessments under the Act to subsidize promotional *48 speech on behalf of California table grapes as a generic category violates their right to free speech under article I, section 2, subdivision (a) of…