Supreme Court delivers blow to pork producers in dispute over California animal welfare law

The Supreme Court handed California a legal victory Thursday in a dispute over its animal welfare law, a ruling that could have huge nationwide implications for consumer prices across a broad set of markets.

The Biden administration and the state of California, normally steadfast allies on a range of environmental issues, were at odds in the case over whether California has the right to impose tough animal-welfare standards on pork produced outside the state.

California's Proposition 12 bans the sale of pork products unless the animal from which it derived was housed with specific...