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AM. HORSE PROTECTION v. U. S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

Nos. 75-1033 and 75-1196.

551 F.2d 432 (1977)

AMERICAN HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR et al. The AMERICAN HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, Virginia Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. McCandless, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Dirk D. Snel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Robert M. Werdig, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Edmund B. Clark and John E. Lindskold, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and TAMM and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge.

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

In 1971, Congress enacted the legislation known as the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act1 to preserve the primeval status of "all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands of the United States".2 Declaring that these creatures are "living symbols of the historic...

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