Legal Opinion
Stewart v. United States Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 15, 2003No. 01-4204PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Derwood Stewart petitions this Court for review of a decision of the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) finding that he violated the Horse Protection Act (“HPA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1821-31, when he entered his horse in a horse show while “sore.”
For the reasons that follow, we DENY Stewart’s petition for review.
I. BACKGROUND
The HPA was enacted to prohibit the practice of deliberately inflicting pain on a horse to reproduce the high-stepping gait of a champion Tennessee Walking Horse. See Baird v. United States Dep’t of Agric., 39…
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- Oakland County Board of Commissioners v. United States Department of LaborCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988
- Calvin L. Baird, Sr. v. United States Department of AgricultureCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by2 opinions
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