Bt brinjal the crop scientists involved in developing the Bt brinjal for allegedly violating India's Biological Diversity Act, 2002 by using local cultivars and foreign technology without their permission. The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture on 9 August 2012 asked the Government to stop all field trials and sought a ban on GM food crops like Bt brinjal. It also sought a "thorough probe" as to how permission was given to commercialise Bt brinjal seed when all evaluation tests were not carried out. The report of the Committee was tabled a day after Maharashtra Government cancelled Mahyco’s licence to sell its Bt cotton
Gamco, Inc. v. Providence Fruit & Produce Building, Inc. along the railroad tracks in Providence, R. I., which served as a produce market where the city's wholesale fruit and vegetable trade was concentrated. It was designed to provide selling, storage, and shipping facilities to the fresh fruit and vegetable dealers of Providence who had found themselves forced from the downtown city streets by accumulating traffic congestion. The facilities are particularly advantageous to local wholesalers. The shipping facilities are the best in Providence. The wholesaler tenants of the building were stockholders of PF&PB. All the leases contained a clause under which the tenants agreed not to "transfer or permit to