McCreery Angus Farms v. American Angus Ass'n

MEMORANDUM, FINDINGS OF FACT, AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., District Judge.

In a preliminary way, this case involves an internal dispute of a private association, the American Angus Association, a not for profit organization. Plaintiffs, successful purebred Black Aberdeen Angus breeders, are indefinitely suspended members for allegedly failing to obey an Association rule relating to blood typing, and of one of its animals in particular. The Plaintiffs have in effect been put out of business by the Association’s action, a group boycott. But there is more to this story.

The function…