Law360 (June 7, 2019, 7:31 PM EDT) — A South Dakota federal judge on Thursday rejected the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s bid to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from impeding the tribe’s efforts to grow industrial hemp, saying the USDA doesn’t have to decide whether to greenlight the tribe’s proposed hemp program until after putting forward rules for such plans this fall.
The tribe hit the USDA with a May complaint and motion for a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order seeking to force the department to approve its plan to grow hemp, which was legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill. The tribe contended that the USDA had…
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