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N.D. (AP) – A federal judge has rejected a request by North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to order a more detailed complaint in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of the state’s Depression-era anti-corporate farming law.

Plaintiffs including the North Dakota Farm Bureau sued in June, saying the law that aims to protect the state’s family farming heritage actually hurts the agriculture industry and interferes with interstate commerce.

Stenehjem maintained the lawsuit was so vague that his office couldn’t even respond to it. He asked U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland to order the plaintiffs to more specifically detail why they believe the law is unconstitutional.

Hovland has denied Stenehjem’s motion, saying the lawsuit “is more than sufficiently clear” for the state to file a response.