September 01, 2016
The Grocery Manufacturers Association and the state of Vermont have agreed to end their battle over a controversial state law requiring the labeling of genetically modified food, in light of a similar nationwide law enacted in late July that preempts any state action, according to a federal court filing Wednesday.
February 25, 2016
The Grocery Manufacturers Association and the state of Vermont, whom the food companies are suing over a controversial state law requiring the labeling of genetically modified food, have asked a Vermont federal court to delay their trial date until after the Second Circuit has ruled on an appeal in the case.
February 17, 2016
The Grocery Manufacturers Association argued Tuesday that the state of Vermont, whose law requiring the labeling of genetically modified organisms it is challenging, should not be allowed to extend the November deadline for fact discovery just to accommodate responses it is still awaiting to subpoenas it had issued before the deadline.
July 23, 2015
Vermont's attorney general told a federal court Wednesday that food industry groups including the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which are targeting its genetically modified food labeling law, are asking the court to allow only "lopsided" discovery by arguing against the state's discovery request on the groups' First Amendment claims.
May 08, 2015
Vermont's controversial law on genetically modified organism food labeling recently survived some challenges by the food industry, but the remaining dispute about whether the state can define "natural" to exclude GMO foods — when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to define it — could influence other states and courts to pin down the amorphous term, attorneys say.
May 06, 2015
Food industry groups including the Grocery Manufacturers' Association on Wednesday indicated plans to appeal to the Second Circuit a lower court's refusal to halt a controversial measure by Vermont to require labeling of genetically modified foods.
April 27, 2015
A Vermont federal judge on Monday refused to halt the state's first-in-the-nation genetically modified food labeling law before it goes into effect July 1, although she also refused to toss some claims in the food industry's challenge to the rule.
October 08, 2014
Two consumer interest groups that helped Vermont pass its genetically modified food labeling law on Tuesday were denied the chance to defend the law in court, after a federal judge ruled state authorities should be able to adequately defend the statute in a pending challenge by the food industry.
September 12, 2014
The Grocery Manufacturers Association and other food industry groups on Thursday urged a federal judge to halt Vermont's genetically-modified-organism food labeling law, describing it as a costly and unnecessary measure that would trample food groups' constitutional rights.
August 11, 2014
The Vermont Attorney General's Office has moved to dismiss a lawsuit backed by the food industry challenging the state's genetically modified food labeling law, saying Monday that the law is constitutional and "a valid exercise of the state's regulatory power."