April 9, 2020

US federal appeals court affirmed ruling protecting the US government in cattle quarantine lawsuit

Southern Texas farm owners failed to win an appeal over their failed lawsuit charging the US federal government over the death of their cattle in a federal imposed cattle quarantine in 2014 to eliminate fever ticks, reported Reuters.

The Cascabel Cattle Company and three individual ranchers were told by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that it lacked jurisdiction over the claims by the cattle owners. A quarantine waiver to the government's sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act cannot be applied to their case.

In the 2014 cattle quarantine, livestock were killed after being negligently roped to be given the pesticide Co-Ral to eliminate fever ticks.

-      Reuters