Judge dismisses suit to stop 2010 wild horse roundup

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…

Kleinert vs Salazar: Lawsuit could be game changer for wild horses

Cross-posted from Wild Horses & Renegades WRITTEN BY JAMES KLEINERT The film Wild Horses and Renegades has generated a federal lawsuit, Kleinert v. Salazar, challenging the recent Disappointment Valley helicopter roundup based on violations of the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse & Burro Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the U.S. Constitution. The…

Hearing in IDA’s Twin Peaks lawsuit set for February 24th

FINAL HEARING SET In Defense of Animals et al v United States Department of the Interior et al PLEASE NOTE: UPDATED DATE AND TIME Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Federal Courthouse, Eastern District of California 501 I Street Courtroom #7 (14th Floor Judge Morrison England Jr.) Sacramento, California http://www.caed.uscourts.gov Rachel Fazio, acting…

BLM not gelding stallions now in wild horse roundup, but doesn’t rule it out

Cross-posted from Reno Gazette-Journal Written by FRANK X MULLEN Faced with legal action by wild horse advocates, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has backed off plans to castrate 200 stallions as part of a roundup of up to 1,000 mustangs 30 miles west of Ely, but the agency might geld wild stallions in the…

Feds defend press limits to Wild Horse roundup

Cross-posted from Courthouse News Service Original post dated Jan. 10, 2012 Article written by DAVE TARTRE SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A photographer appeared before the 9th Circuit on Monday to defend press freedoms against the federal agency that barred her from attending a roundup of wild horses in Nevada. Laura Leigh sued in September 2010…

BLM Issues Report on Wild Horse “Inhumane” lawsuit

WILD HORSE FREEDOM FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE HOUSTON (WHFF) - (Dec. 7, 2011) Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the long awaited report on their internal investigation into allegations of inhumane treatment in connection with the Triple B wild horse roundup that occurred in Nevada during July and August of this year. The documentation,…

Judge allows Wild Horse advocates to join Wyoming case

PAT RAIA, reporting for the Horse.com writes: A Wyoming U.S. District Court judge has granted intervenor status to wild horse groups in connection with a lawsuit brought by the Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA) against the U.S. Department of Interior earlier this year. The judicial order allows the groups, which are not parties to the…

9th Circuit dismisses case seeking to block wild horse roundup

Written by DENNY WALSH Cross-posted from The Sacramento Bee A split federal appellate panel today [August 15, 2011] dismissed activists' appeal of a Sacramento judge's refusal to block last year's roundup and removal of wild horses and burros from their range in northeastern California. A year ago, U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. denied…

Contested Nevada Mustang roundup begins

WRITTEN BY PAT RAIA THE HORSE The contested Triple B Mustang gather in Nevada got under way Wednesday (July 20) after a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judicial panel declined to grant a group of wild horse advocates' injunction to stop it. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was to begin gathering approximately 1,726 animals…

BLM can roundup 1,700 mustangs in Nevada after appeals court lifts injunction

ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTT SONNER APNewsBreak: RENO, NV (July 19, 2011) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management was given the green light on Tuesday to move ahead with a controversial horse roundup in Nevada when a federal appeals court lifted a temporary injunction blocking the gather of more than 1,700 mustangs. An animal rights group,…