by Emily Stone | Mar 31, 2026 | Alternative Proteins, Emily Stone
On March 23, 2026, the Eleventh Circuit published an opinion upholding a district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction in Upside Foods, Inc v. Simpson, et al. This ruling was one of the first appellate decisions to weigh in on how states can regulate the sale of...
by Emily Stone | Mar 19, 2026 | Agricultural Marketing Service, Biotechnology, Research Fellows, United States Department of Agriculture
Mary Eichenberger, Research Fellow On October 31, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided in Natural Grocers v. Rollins, that regulations implementing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law should be set aside due to agency error in interpreting the...
by Emily Stone | Mar 3, 2026 | 'MAHA' Movement, Alternative Proteins, Emily Stone, Food Labeling
Though 2026 is young, the year has already seen a few interesting judicial rulings related to food law coming out of the state of Texas. Specifically, courts in the Western District of Texas have issued two decisions on preliminary injunctions – granting one and...
by Emily Stone | Feb 24, 2026 | Alternative Proteins, Emily Stone, Food Labeling, Truth in Labeling Law(suits)
On January 28, 2026, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down a Texas law that required labeling for alternative proteins. Specifically, the court determined that SB 664, codified at Tex. Health & Safety Code § 431.0082, was an unconstitutional...
by Emily Stone | Feb 3, 2026 | 'MAHA' Movement, Emily Stone, Food Safety
On December 23, 2025, a District Judge in the Southern District of West Virginia ruled that the state is temporarily prohibited from enforcing its synthetic food dye ban while the law is being challenged in court. This law, enacted as HB 2354 and codified at W. Va....
