The State - News from Aug. 13, 1985
A legal challenge to pesticide spraying in Sacramento suburbs to combat the Japanese beetle was rejected by a three-member panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court said opponents of the spraying program, which began in 1983, could not sue state or federal officials under environmental and pesticide laws. State Deputy Atty. Gen. Roderick Walston said the ruling, as it was described to him, appeared to require dismissal of the case.
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