In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies discuss restaurant industry wins in federal court on two different issues.
In Illinois, a federal judge ruled that Visa and Mastercard are not protected by federal preemption on credit card swipe fees, and neither are banks. This clears the way for continued state-level efforts by the industry to rein in out-of-control swipe fees.
And a federal judge in Oregon ruled that the state’s Extended Producer Responsibility legislation likely violates the U.S. Constitution. The decision partially blocked the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing the state’s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, which would have required producers of packaging material and paper products to pay a fee to cover recycling costs. The ruling also calls into question the validity of similar laws in other states. Could this be the end of Extended Producer Responsibility as we know it?
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