Agricultural Economics Department
Date of this Version
1-21-2004
Abstract
On August 19, 2003 the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that South Dakota’s constitutional “Amendment E” restricting corporate farming, violated the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. SD Farm Bureau v Hazeltine, 340 F3d 583 (8CA 2003). Because much of Amendment E’s language is identical with Nebraska’s corporate farming constitutional amendment (Initiative 300), the decision implies that I300 could also be unconstitutional.
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Published in Cornhusker Economics, 01/21/2004. Produced by the Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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