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2 unusual facts about United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois


Filled milk

The issue of filled milk came to the forefront in United States v. Carolene Products Co. wherein Carolene Products Co. was indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for violation of the Act by the shipment in interstate commerce of certain packages of "Milnut," a compound of condensed skimmed milk and coconut oil made in imitation or semblance of condensed milk or cream.

Even the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois that originally ruled that a rational basis supported the Filled Milk Act reversed their decision in Milnot Co. v. Richardson, 350 F.Supp.


Nancy J. Rosenstengel

Nancy J. Rosenstengel (born 1968) is Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and is currently a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the same court.


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Nancy J. Rosenstengel

From 1998 to 2009, she served as a career law clerk to Judge G. Patrick Murphy of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.