Legal Opinion

Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America v. United States Department of Agriculture

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided July 25, 2005No. 05-35264PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether the district court erred in issuing a preliminary injunction prohibiting the implementation of a regulation of the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) permitting the resumption of the importation of Canadian cattle into the United States. We conclude that it did and therefore reverse the district court.

At the heart of this case lies a relatively new cattle disease caused by the practice of feeding cows, herbivores by nature, the brains and other central nervous system tissues of other cows. Technically known as Bovine Spongiform…

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3Cited by27 opinions

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