The U.S. Supreme Court on 30 June declined to review an Iowa Pork Producers Association petition challenging California’s Proposition 12, a 2018 voter-approved measure that bars the sale of pork in the state unless each breeding sow is afforded at least 24 square feet of space. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he would have granted the appeal, but no other justice voted to take the case, leaving intact lower-court rulings that upheld the law. The Court had previously, in 2023, turned aside a similar challenge brought by the National Pork Producers Council. In a separate order, the justices refused to hear an appeal by billionaire developer Geoffrey Palmer and other landlords who argued that Los Angeles’ Covid-19 eviction moratorium violated their constitutional rights and cost them roughly $100 million in rent. The decision lets stand a Ninth Circuit ruling that supported the city’s emergency protections for tenants during the pandemic. The Court also asked the U.S. solicitor general to submit views on Bayer’s effort to overturn a $1.2 million verdict that linked Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller to cancer. Bayer, which faces tens of thousands of similar lawsuits, hopes the justices will ultimately agree to limit such claims by ruling that federal pesticide labeling law preempts state failure-to-warn suits. The solicitor general’s brief is expected later this year, delaying any decision on whether the Court will hear the case.