Bates v. Dow Agrosciences LLC | |
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Argued January 10, 2005 Decided April 27, 2005 | |
Full case name | Dennis Bates, et al., Petitioners v. Dow Agrosciences LLC |
Docket no. | 03-388 |
Citations | 544 U.S. 431 (more) 125 S. Ct. 1788; 161 L. Ed. 2d 687; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 3706 |
Case history | |
Prior | Summary judgment for defendants, 436 F. Supp. 2d 132 (Me. 2006); reversed, 501 F.3d 29 (1st Cir. 2007); cert. granted, 552 U.S. ___ (2008) |
Holding | |
Federal law does not preempt the application of state law in insecticide labeling requirements. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Stevens, joined by Rehnquist, O’Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
Concurrence | Breyer |
Concur/dissent | Thomas, joined by Scalia |
Laws applied | |
15 U.S.C. § 1334(b) (Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act); Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Tit. 5, § 207(Supp. 2008) (Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act) |
Bates v. Dow Agrosciences LLC, 544 U.S. 431 (2005), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) did not preempt state law claims, brought by a group of Texas farmers, alleging that one of Dow's pesticides damaged their peanut crop.[1]