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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger. And Sarah,

this really isn't the Advisory Opinions Podcast today. This podcast is dedicated entirely

to the health welfare and well-being of our pig friends.

Yes.

So a huge case. We talked about this case in our live podcast yesterday at George Mace.

And shout out to George Mace and Scalia Law folks. They were tremendous hosts. It was

a great, we had great fun there. So shout out to you guys. Did a great job hosting us.

We talked a lot about this case as one of the secretly most important cases in the entire

term. And we've got a guest where we're going to have a couple of guests. But we have a

guest one and to sort of talk about ballot measures and some of the aspects of the case

that haven't gotten enough attention. And then we're going to have a guest two.

This is going to be fun.

Before we get to our guest, I thought we could lay the table, set the table, whatever we say these days about this case.

Perfect.

National pork producers, council V Ross, Proposition 12, which states that no poor can be sold in the state of California

that comes from pigs that were born from sows that were held in gestational crates.

These are crates basically where the mother pig can't turn around.

So those piglets who then grow up to be pigs and are slaughtered can't be sold in the state of California.

And the QP David, the question presented, whether allegations that a state law has dramatic economic

effects largely outside of the state and requires pervasive changes to an integrated nationwide industry,

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