Post by Woody Williams on Jan 25, 2007 7:30:19 GMT -5
Can you believe this? Judge forces state to pay for an anti-hunter's suit
State (AK) ordered to pay $95,000 to Anti Group
Anchorage, Alaska - Aerial wolf hunting is back in the courts. The state has been ordered to pay attorney fees to an animal rights group over a lawsuit that briefly stopped the program last winter.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason put aerial wolf hunting on hold for 10 days. Now she's ruled the state must pay $95,000 in attorney fees to animal rights group Friends of Animals. Officials with the Department of Law say the group was entitled to reimbursement because it had no financial incentives in filing the suit.
Friends of Animals filed the suit in 2003 to stop aerial wolf hunting. It was reinstated after the Board of Game adopted emergency regulations to conform the program to state law.
In the past four years, more than 550 Alaska wolves have been killed. The state says it was to increase the number of moose and caribou for rural hunters.
www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=5986391
State (AK) ordered to pay $95,000 to Anti Group
Anchorage, Alaska - Aerial wolf hunting is back in the courts. The state has been ordered to pay attorney fees to an animal rights group over a lawsuit that briefly stopped the program last winter.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason put aerial wolf hunting on hold for 10 days. Now she's ruled the state must pay $95,000 in attorney fees to animal rights group Friends of Animals. Officials with the Department of Law say the group was entitled to reimbursement because it had no financial incentives in filing the suit.
Friends of Animals filed the suit in 2003 to stop aerial wolf hunting. It was reinstated after the Board of Game adopted emergency regulations to conform the program to state law.
In the past four years, more than 550 Alaska wolves have been killed. The state says it was to increase the number of moose and caribou for rural hunters.
www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=5986391
