( October 5, 2026, 2:32 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on Oct. 2 denied California and several intervenors’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by the United States challenging California’s law regulating the production and sale of chicken eggs subject to enforcement under California’s unfair competition law (UCL), which the United States argues will raise egg prices nationwide and is preempted by a federal law governing egg products....