Legal Opinion
Friends of Animals v. United States Bureau of Land Management
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 7, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2017-0136PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
The Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) is entrusted with managing the population of wild horses that roam public rangeland in the western United States. To fulfill this statutory responsibility, BLM must periodically remove horses from the range. One such removal operation—also known as a “gather”—is scheduled to begin tomorrow, February 8, 2017, in Utah’s Cedar Mountains. The operation has been challenged, however, by the animal welfare organization, Friends of Animals. The organization seeks a preliminary injunction halting…
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