The federal government has sued the state of Michigan over its cage-free egg law, arguing the statute is raising prices nationwide, a claim the agriculture experts dispute as false. The state, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Timothy Boring and Attorney General Dana Nessel are named as defendants in the case. “The EPIA expressly preempts Michigan’s efforts to inflate egg prices by conditioning market access on non-federal egg standards. The lawsuit, filed in July, sought to undo California’s cage-free egg law, by similarly claiming that the requirement was contributing to high egg costs nationwide. Fortin described the DOJ’s argument that the cage-free law is affecting interstate commerce as weak.