Thank you! I recall reading about this, well, a long while back (or else, the last time you posted anything about it). These days even a victory as circumscribed as this is good news.
The decision was even posted on Instapundit. Makes me cringe at the fact that the Mark Steyn vs Professor Mann climate-change hockey stick libel lawsuit started a few years before the Country Mill lawsuit and still isn't in discovery phase. It's in Washington DC courts.
Was there a due process element to this lawsuit? I mean, was East Lansing charged with making an arbitrary, unexplained move to exclude the apple farmers, denying them due process? Were the farmers ever told precisely why they were being kept out of the market?
I don't know all the details. Part of the early contention of course was the Mill saying "we're being excluded for our beliefs" and the city saying "no, it's because of your behavior", as if those two things are easily separable.
The fact that their property is outside the city was always a weird wrinkle to me. If there is a question, what, are you going to send city police 30 miles outside the city to investigate their farm practices? Is that even legal?
Thank you! I recall reading about this, well, a long while back (or else, the last time you posted anything about it). These days even a victory as circumscribed as this is good news.
The decision was even posted on Instapundit. Makes me cringe at the fact that the Mark Steyn vs Professor Mann climate-change hockey stick libel lawsuit started a few years before the Country Mill lawsuit and still isn't in discovery phase. It's in Washington DC courts.
If this can be so in Lansing, it can be so anywhere.
Had a reaction a bit like that myself.
Was there a due process element to this lawsuit? I mean, was East Lansing charged with making an arbitrary, unexplained move to exclude the apple farmers, denying them due process? Were the farmers ever told precisely why they were being kept out of the market?
I don't know all the details. Part of the early contention of course was the Mill saying "we're being excluded for our beliefs" and the city saying "no, it's because of your behavior", as if those two things are easily separable.
The fact that their property is outside the city was always a weird wrinkle to me. If there is a question, what, are you going to send city police 30 miles outside the city to investigate their farm practices? Is that even legal?