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The Stowers case in Lorain, Ohio has raised concerns and worries for gardeners throughout the country. Why? One of the reasons involves “The Food Modernization Act of 2009.”:

Update of December 18

The Director of the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center Maurice Thompson shares more about the facts in the case of Stowers v. Boggs, as well as just some of the constitutional issues at stake.  Listen here on BuckeyeVoices, the Buckeye Institute’s podcast service.

Our court filing can be found here.

And our press release here.

Original post from 12/17

We have offered comments on a recent police raid in LaGrange, Ohio on a family’s organic food co-op and their home.

Much has been published on this incident since, but you can hear directly from the Stowers themselves in this interview:

The Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is filing suit today against the Ohio Department of Agriculture and other government agencies citing seizure of private property without compensation, unlawful exercise of administrative authority and unlawful application of state police power, among other violations of freedoms guaranteed by the Ohio Constitution.

1:00 pm EST Update

Our court filing can be found here.

And our press release here.