Wild horses: Calico roundup case dismissed

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Editor

Cross-posted from the Nevada Sun
ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 24, 2010

Wild horses rounded up from the Calico Complex in northern Nevada earlier this year in wintry conditions left out in the cold for good as federal Judge Paul Friedman dismisses case to protect them.

A federal judge Monday officially dismissed a lawsuit brought by animal rights activists over a big wild horse roundup in northern Nevada, saying the case was moot and plaintiffs lacked standing.
U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington, D.C., who in December denied an injunction to prevent the roundup, said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has already gathered 1,922 horses from the Calico Mountains Complex north of Reno, therefore challenging the use of helicopters was moot.
The group In Defense of Animals, wildlife ecologist Craig Downer and children’s author Terri Farley also claimed in their suit that shipping horses removed from the range to long-term holding corrals in the Midwest is not permitted under the Wild Horse and Burro Act.
But Friedman said the plaintiffs failed to show how sending the horses to other facilities would cause harm to themselves. Read all >>
Related reading:

• Calico Wild Horse Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality, not Merits, IDA Press Release, May 24, 2010
(from TCF blog)
• Judge dismisses Nevada wild horse roundup lawsuit, Reno Gazette-Journal, May 24, 2010
• NV horse roundup suit dismissed by federal judge, Nevada Appeal, May 24, 2010