USDA Beats First Amendment Challenge to School Dairy Marketing

The US Department of Agriculture won its bid to dismiss a student-led First Amendment challenge to its rules related to the sale and marketing of dairy milk in schools.

Marielle Williamson’s claims that the National School Lunch Program and a parallel USDA regulation violate students’ free speech rights are moot because she’s since graduated from high school, said Judge Fernando M. Olguin of the US District Court for the Central District of California in a Nov. 30 order. The plaintiffs also lack standing to sue the USDA because the complaint seeks relief for alleged actions taken by the high school, ...