
Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Preemption of Local Pesticide Ordinance
This post is not legal advice As 2016 draws to a close, I wanted to make sure to take the opportunity to write on issues in the state of Hawaii. In the past, I have written posts on those Hawaii counties looking to ban pesticide applications or GMOs. Major seed companies, like Syngenta and Monsanto, look to Hawaii because of the climate. Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the federal district court’s invalidation of Kauai County’s ordinance regulating GM