Image from 2008 Washoe County Helicopter Roundup. Brad Horn / AP.

Judge dismisses suit to stop 2010 wild horse roundup

Image from 2008 Washoe County Helicopter Roundup. Brad Horn / AP.
PHOTO CREDIT: BRAD HORN / AP.
In this July 13, 2008 AP file photo a livestock helicopter pilot rounds up wild horses from the Fox & Lake Herd Management Area from the range in Washoe County, Nev., near the town on Empire, Nev.

Cross-posted from Sacramento Bee

WRITTEN BY DENNY WALSH

More than two years after it occurred, a Sacramento judge this week has put his stamp of approval on a wild horse and burro roundup by federal land managers.

An animal rights group, along with a wild horse and burro sanctuary and three individual activists unsuccessfully tried to head off the August 2010 roundup in Lassen County and Nevada’s Washoe County. U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. and later a federal appellate court refused the plaintiffs’ request to step in and temporarily block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from proceeding with the roundup until the matter could be decided on the merits.

On Thursday, England ended the lawsuit, at least at the trial court level, with a 36-page order granting the BLM’s motion for a summary judgment in its favor.

Read more here http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/16/4991397/judge-dismisses-suit-to-stop-2010.html

2 thoughts on “Judge dismisses suit to stop 2010 wild horse roundup”

  1. RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE GENOCIDE BEING COMMITTED UPON AMERICA’S LAST REMAINING WILD HORSES/BURROS
    There are over 1 billion facebook users. Contact a random person EVERY DAY that is NOT in your friend list who is NOT already using their voice to speak up for America’s native wild horses

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