AMERICAN HORSE PROTECTION ASS'N, INC. v. YEUTTER

Nos. 90-5151, 90-5211.

917 F.2d 594 (1990)

AMERICAN HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellee, v. Clayton YEUTTER, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Friends of the Showhorse Association, Inc., et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia D. Carter, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates, R. Craig Lawrence and Michael J. Ryan, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellant, Clayton Yeutter.

John M. Harmon, Austin, Tex., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Tex., pro hac vice, by special leave of the Court, with whom Herbert J. Miller, Jr., John J. Cassidy and David I. Gelfand, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants, Friends of the Showhorse Ass'n, Inc., et al.

Russell J. Gaspar, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Before MIKVA, EDWARDS and SILBERMAN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and the defendant-intervenors below appeal from an order granting summary judgment to the American Horse Protection Association ("AHPA") and vacating regulations promulgated under the Horse Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1821-1831 (1988) (the "Act"). The district court decided that the agency regulations permitting the use of six...

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