District Court, D. Montana July 29, 2016, CV 15-59-BLG-SPW (Friends of Animals v. Sparks)

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SUSAN P. WATTERS, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs Friends of Animals (“FOA”) filed this action on June 26, 2015, to stop a planned round-up of wild horses scheduled for August 3, 2015, at the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range (“the Horse Range”). FOA argued that the planned gather violated the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (“Wild Horse Act”), 16 U.S.C. §§ 1331 et seq.