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Right to pursue farming as an occupation
The public page describes an amici effort for Minnesota deer farmers and a proposed constitutional right to pursue farming. It says the court phase was unsuccessful.
The live page says Five Stones filed an amici curiae brief when Minnesota deer farmers challenged state regulation of their occupation, and that the fight went to the U.S. Supreme Court. It says the court efforts were unsuccessful. It says the focus has turned to the Minnesota Legislature for statutes that protect agricultural occupations.
Summary on the public page
The page says the legal project aims to establish a fundamental right to pursue farming at the Supreme Court. It distinguishes state right-to-farm laws, which it says mainly protect existing farms from nuisance suits, from a constitutional right to enter the occupation. It says the Supreme Court has acknowledged a generalized due-process right to choose a field of private employment, and that a July 2025 Eighth Circuit ruling about Minnesota deer farmers said the liberty to pursue one’s chosen occupation is not a fundamental right in that challenge to new restrictions.
The live projects list marks Save Farm Occupation closed.
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