Nebraska corporate farm ban assailed

[GAspnes]

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/10540623.htm
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Nebraska's corporate farming ban, considered one of the toughest in the country, is being challenged in a federal lawsuit filed by a state senator who is also a cattle rancher.

Claims in the lawsuit filed Thursday mirror those in a suit that resulted in South Dakota's ban being struck down as unconstitutional in 2003.

The lawsuit is the latest chapter in the battle over Nebraska's ban, known as Initiative 300, which was added to the state's constitution by popular vote in 1982. Seven other Midwestern states — Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin — have similar bans.

They just can't keep their greedy little paws off anything, can they? The goal of these laws is to give family farms a fighting chance of survival. It was interesting to consider this article in the context of the Diamond article about the damage caused by the elite "being the last to starve."

[acmavm]

1. This will be interesting since this place is not exactly known for its

political or judicial common sense.

[GAspnes]

2. I've got to agree with Clarence Thomas on this one

The Federal Government has *no* business extending the Commerce Clause to this degree, assuming that's the 'right' being trampled by this unfair-to-agribusiness law.

I know some good liberals down there. One of them's my ex-wife.

[Massacure]

3. If it is in the constitution, how can it be unconstitutional?

My eyes are spinning trying to ponder this. :shrug: