Front Range Equine Rescue v. Vilsack

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves environmental challenges to a federal agency’s decisions to grant inspection services for the slaughter and processing of horses and other equines at three slaughterhouses. In the proceedings below, the district court affirmed the agency’s grants of inspection. Plaintiffs — various organizations and individuals opposed to horse slaughter — then filed this appeal to challenge the district court’s decision. However, one slaughterhouse subsequently withdrew its application for inspection, a second slaughterhouse surrendered its grant of equine inspection…