Court Opinion

ID: 9455539
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Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:25:21.893214+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:38.170296
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COLEMAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent.
With deference, it is my view that Campbell v. Hussey, cited in the majority opinion, is not controlling. What that case held was that Georgia could not foster a tobacco classification based on geography rather than upon the characteristics of the product.
Here, however, we have nothing but the right or power of the State, separate and apart from classification, to identify a product grown within its borders— identification and nothing but identification.
I am not prepared to hold that this was (or is) preempted by the federal statute. Congress made no such declaration. Sligh v. Kirkwood, 237 U.S. 52, 35 S.Ct. 501, 59 L.Ed. 835 (1915) was on the books when the Tobacco Inspection Act was passed. See, also, Pike v. Church, 397 U.S. 137, 90 S.Ct. 844, 25 L.Ed.2d 174 (1967).
I would affirm.