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· 7/15/2003

Alto Dairy v. Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture, and Continental Dairy Products, Inc., Intervening

Citations

  • 336 F.3d 560
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 14181
  • 2003 WL 21649661

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that notice was sufficient because industry “insiders” would realize that an issue was at stake
  • holding that notice was sufficient because industry “insiders” would realize that an issue was at stake
  • upholding final rule prohibiting “paper pooling” of milk producers with “distant supply plants” because agency’s notice raised the issue of “pool” eligibility
  • describing milk-pricing system as means of “redis- tribut[ing] wealth from consumers to producers of milk”
  • describing system of uniform pricing as “price discrimination” and noting that price discrimination increases profits, “thus coun- teracting the alleged (though almost certainly spurious) tendency of dairy farmers to destroy their business by competing overvig- orously”
  • “omissions are not en- actments; and even deliberate omissions are often subject to alternative interpretations”

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Judges: Flaum, Posner, Manion

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