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092762P.pdf 09/15/2010 In Re: Aurora Dairy Corp v.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-2762
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Organic Food Production Act of 1990. In view of the Act's
text and purpose, the narrowness of its express preemption provision, the
presumption against preemption and the tradition of state regulation in
the area of consumer protection, the Act's regulatory scheme is not so
pervasive as to make a reasonable inference that Congress left no room
for the States to supplement it; all claims against the certifying agent
QAI, which certified Aurora's milk as organic were preempted by the
Act; class action claims that Aurora and retailers sold milk as organic
when it fact it was not are preempted; the plaintiffs' claims based on state
laws regulating deceptive advertising practices were not preempted, and
the matter is remanded for further proceedings on such claims.