California's law banning the sale of meat from livestock too feeble to walk to their deaths drew a withering response from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. Nearly every justice who spoke at the one-hour hearing said the state law appeared to clash with federal slaughterhouse inspection rules that allow sales of meat from nonambulatory pigs, sheep and goats unless they show signs of certain diseases. "When the federal law says you can (sell meat), that pre-empts the rule from the states that says you can't," said Chief...
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