The Wonderful Company’s effort to overturn a new farmworker unionization law was dealt a setback last Tuesday after a California appeals court dismissed the agribusiness giant’s lawsuit against state labor regulators.

A three-judge panel from the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno ruled the lawsuit was premature, allowing a contentious law backed by the United Farm Workers to remain in effect.

The backstory: The measure enables farmworkers to support unionization through signed cards, eliminating the need for traditional in-person, secret-ballot elections typically held at employers’ worksites. • Wonderful Company, owner of Wonderful Pistachios, Fiji Water, Pom pomegranate juice and Halos oranges, filed suit against the Agricultural Labor Relations Board last year. • The Los Ange

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