By: Taber Law Group – Environmental Law and Climate Change Law Newsletter, March 14, 2010, vol.2, no. 9 « Taber Law Group

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[...] Ag Groups File Amicus Brief on High Court’s First Biotech Case. – National Association of Wheat Growers, March 12, 2010 NAWG joined a coalition of agricultural organizations Monday in filing a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms. The case will be the first on genetically modified crops that the Court has heard and will examine if a lower court acted hastily and incorrectly by banning the cultivation of biotech alfalfa despite extensive scientific evidence documenting the safety of the crop. In their brief, the groups urge that the lower courts’ decision to approve an injunction without adequately hearing the key evidence must be reversed “to protect the farmers who choose to grow genetically-engineered crops, as well as the public benefits that agricultural biotechnology brings to producers and consumers around the world.” In the lower court case, environmental groups and individual organic alfalfa farmers sued USDA, claiming the Department’s decision to grant deregulated status to glyphosate-tolerant, or Roundup Ready, alfalfa violated the National Environmental Policy Act.. Click Here [...]

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By: Taber Law Group – Environmental Law and Climate Change Law Newsletter, March 14, 2010, vol.2, no. 9 « Taber Law Group