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State District Judge
Matthew Wilson made the announcement after a hearing Monday on a request from
Attorney General Gary King's office for a preliminary injunction against Valley
Meat Co. King has filed a lawsuit alleging the company's operations would
violate state environmental and food safety laws.
The plant was blocked from
opening last year after animal protection groups brought a federal lawsuit
against the Department of Agriculture for issuing permits to Valley and two
other companies, which would become the first domestic horse slaughtering
plants in seven years. A federal judge threw out that lawsuit.
King filed the
state case after a federal appeals court declined to keep the plants shuttered.
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