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Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Preemption of Local Pesticide Ordinance

Paul Goeringer

Nov 30, 2016
2 min

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

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Jun 24, 2016
3 min

Weekly News Update: June 24th Edition

By Mayhah Suri In a Landmark Development, Egg Producers Will End Chick Culling A major step towards eliminating chick culling was announced last week by the Humane League, a smallish but increasingly powerful animal rights group. The Humane League has convinced the United Egg Producers, an agricultural cooperative that represents the companies responsible for about 95 percent of all eggs produced in the US, to make a major change. To read the full article click here: http://

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Third Time Is Not a Charm – Maui’s County GMO Ordinance Found to Be Preempted

Paul Goeringer

Jul 9, 2015
3 min

Third Time Is Not a Charm – Maui’s County GMO Ordinance Found to Be Preempted

This post should not be construed as legal advice. On June 30, 2015, a Federal district judge in Hawaii ruled that Maui’s county genetically modified organism (GMO) ordinance was preempted by Federal and state law. For those of you keeping score at home, this marks the third county in Hawaii whose GMO ordinance was found to be preempted. I realize Billy Joe Shaver did not say this first, but he did put it into a good song. To paraphrase Shaver, “If at first you don’t succe

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Another County Ordinance Restricting GMOs Found Invalid

Paul Goeringer

Dec 8, 2014
4 min

Another County Ordinance Restricting GMOs Found Invalid

Back in September, I wrote about a Kauai County ordinance banning the production of GMO crops invalidated by the federal district court in Hawaii. Recently a Hawaii County ordinance banning GMO production met a similar fate in Hawai’i Floriculture & Nursery Ass’n v. County of Hawaii, Civ. No. 14-00267, 2014 WL 6685817 (D. Haw. Nov. 26, 2014). Similar to the Kauai County ordinance, the Hawaii County ordinance was preempted under state law and portions of federal law. Before

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County Ordinance Regulating Pesticide Use and Planting of GMO Crops Preempted By State Law

Paul Goeringer

Sep 8, 2014
3 min

County Ordinance Regulating Pesticide Use and Planting of GMO Crops Preempted By State Law

This post should not be relied upon as legal advice. Recently the federal district court in Hawaii concluded that a Kauai County ordinance imposing regulations on pesticide applications and on the planting of genetically modified (GMO) crops was preempted by state law, click here. The court decision looking at this issue is a potentially growing area of litigation. Earlier this summer I posted about two counties in Oregon that had passed ordinances banning GMO crop producti

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