Congressional declaration of policy
United States Code
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- 2025Indiana Department of Education v. Mt. Zions Loving Day Care Ministry Ind. Ct. App.
- 2025Texas Department of Agriculture v. Be a Champion, Inc.; James Hong; Kevin Klotz; George Moon; And Jaron Barganier Tex. App.
- 2022Shen v. United States E.D.N.Y
- 2022Fan v. United States E.D.N.Y
- 2020Center for Science in the Public Interest v. Perdue D. Maryland
- 2019J. McClain v. PA Dept. of Education, Division of Food and Nutrition Pa. Commw. Ct.
- 2019Smith v. Tipton Cnty. Bd. of Educ. 6th Cir.
- 2019Physicians Com. for Responsible etc. v. L.A. Unified School Dist. Cal. Ct. App.
- 2016inTeam Associates, LLC v. Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. Del. Ch.
- 2012Pace ex rel. Pace v. State Md.
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It is declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of foods and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs. (Source: (June 4, 1946, ch. 281, § 2, 60 Stat. 230; Pub. L. 101–147, title III, § 312(1), Nov. 10, 1989, 103 Stat. 916.))