Court of Appeals Denies R-CALF Request for Rehearing Border Case
R-CALF's last chance of overturning trade with Canada under 30 months of age is at the Supreme Court.
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Published: Oct 14, 2005
On October 13th the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied both R-CALF's request for a re-hearing and their request for a rehearing en banc of that court's decision to overturn the preliminary injunction against Canadian live cattle imports. It was the overturning of the preliminary injunction that allowed Canadian under 30 month feeder and slaughter cattle to begin moving to the U.S. in July.
The panel of three judges that issued the decision overturning the preliminary injunction denied R-CALF's request for a rehearing. In addition, no active judge in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals asked for a vote on R-CALF's request for a rehearing en banc. Had any one of the 47 active judges requested it, a vote of all the active judges would have decided if a rehearing in front of a larger panel of judges would have been heard.
"This effectively ends the appeals process for the overturning of the preliminary injunction in the Court of Appeals. If R-CALF wants to continue its efforts to reverse the overturning of the preliminary injunction, they would now have to appeal it to the Supreme Court," says Stan Eby, President of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association.
Judge Cebull of the U.S. District Court, Montana Division, has yet to issue his decision whether or not additional hearings will be heard in his court prior to his ruling on R-CALF's request for a permanent injunction against Canadian live cattle and beef.
"We remain confident that USDA's Final Rule is premature," says R-CALF President and co-founder Leo McDonnell. "We will now ask the District Court to schedule a hearing in our case, at which time the court will have a full opportunity to consider all of the facts that demonstrate why USDA's actions concerning Canadian imports are ill-conceived."
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