Upside Foods of California is continuing its legal challenge of a Florida law banning the production and commercialization of cultivated meat.
A federal district court In North Carolina ruled in October against a move by Upside to gain an injunction against enforcing the law which came into effect in July.
Now Upside and the Institute for Justice are planning to appeal.
"We have not yet appealed the denial of the preliminary injunction, but we plan to," said J. Justin Wilson, vice president for communications with Institute for Justice.
Neither the judge’s decision on the preliminary injunction nor the appeals process end the original lawsuit, which will determine the constitutionality of the Florida law.