A civil rights group representing ranchers and livestock owners wants the Supreme Court to consider the merits of cases with conflicting opinions over whether the USDA acted wrongly in actions taken on how producers could comply with identification of their livestock if a disease outbreak occurred.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in R-CALF USA v. USDA, asserting that Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service failed to comply with statutory requirements in the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) when it…
