OPINION: The battle to see our horses continues, as horses continue to die behind closed doors
By Laura Leigh,
RENO, (WHE) – Wild Horse Education is continuing the legal battle for transparency against the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Because the public is continually denied consistent access to roundups and...
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HADLYME, CT, (GRH) – Two briefs were recently filed in the ongoing lawsuit brought by journalist Laura Leigh against the Bureau of Land Management and Department of Interior. The briefs are in connection with the Silver King wild horse roundups conducted in Nevada this past September. The case pursues the public’s ongoing right to...
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By Maureen VanDerStad, Photo by Laura Leigh
RENO, (GRH) – On November 16, 2010, in a Reno, Nevada courtroom packed with observers from as far away as New York, Federal District Judge Larry Hicks held a significant hearing in the lawsuit brought by journalist and wild horse advocate Laura Leigh against the Department of Interior...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Laura Leigh
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A Reno federal judge listened patiently to five witnesses, including a stumbling government PR spokesman, during a 4.5 hour hearing Tuesday. The hearing was on a motions brought by plaintiff Laura Leigh and her lawyer Gordon Cowan. Leigh is a journalist and photographer who says...
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By Steven Long, Photos by Katie Fite
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Tucked away in court documents relating to a lawsuit filed by journalist and artist Laura Leigh is a telling photograph by Western Watershed Biodiversity Director, Katie Fite. The photo is of a peaceful desert scene.
The photo shows a river about 60 feet wide with abundant...
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When Laura Leigh, an author, artist, journalist, and litigant chased the BLM into the desert to observe wild horse capture after a federal judge told her she could do so, she wasn’t allowed to see horses – but she did see water.
Judge Larry Hicks lifted his temporary injunction and...
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By Vicki Tobin, Special to Horseback Magazine, Photo by Cat Fisher
CHICAGO, – Despite Judge Hick’s order on Friday, July 16, equine advocate, Laura Leigh, was denied access to the trap site for the Owyhee round up, one of three herd areas comprising the Tuscarora round-up. When questioned, the authorities responded that she was not...
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By R.T. Fitch, Straight From the Horse’s Heart, Special to Horseback Magazine, Laura Leigh photo by Terry Fitch
HOUSTON – (SFTHH) – This evening we received a phone call from artist and wild horse advocate Laura Leigh that she had not been allowed to travel to a Federal Bureau of Land Management trap site after a federal...
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