The federal government and 21 state attorneys general have joined the North American Meat Institute in asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its October decision affirming a lower court ruling that had the effect of upholding California’s animal housing law, commonly known as Proposition 12.

Bayer, Corteva and BASF all have filed motions in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking en banc rehearing of a June 3 decision vacating registrations of Xtendimax, FeXapan and Engenia for use on soybeans and cotton.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling on a lawsuit by environmental groups involving a long-running water cleanup project in the San Joaquin Valley.

Growers in California and several other states are fighting to retain use of chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum insecticide environmentalists and farmworker advocates have sought to ban for years.