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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 IOWA PORK PRODUCERS No. 1:21-cv-01663-NONE-EPG

ASSOCIATION,

ORDER DECLINING TO EXPEDITE Plaintiff, CONSIDERATION OF PENDING MOTION; GRANTING REQUEST TO EXPAND PAGE v. LIMITS IN PART; AND REQUIRING RE- FILING AND RE-NOTICING OF MOTION ROB BONTA, et al. 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff in this case challenges the constitutionality and seeks to prevent the enforcement of California Health & Safety Code § 25990, et seq., which California voters most recently amended through passage of Proposition 12 back on November 16, 2018 (“Proposition 12”). Among other things, Proposition 12 prohibits the sale of “whole pork meat” from a “covered animal” that was confined in a “cruel manner” or is the immediate offspring of a covered animal that was confined in a cruel manner. Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25900. The statute defines “confined in a cruel manner” to include confining…