Quarter-horse body prepares for clones, pursues legal options
The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) says it is working on dominion updates inwards training to convey the registration of clones, merely hopes to get got the court-ordered alter delayed piece it pursues legal options.
It also faces a nib of nearly $US900,000 for the damage of lawyers fees inwards the challenge mounted against its cloning ban.
The AQHA said Judge Mary Lou Robinson had issued a terminal judgment inwards the case, proverb it had to instantly start registering clones as well as their offspring.
It says it volition file a motion to remain the enforcement of the judgment pending an appeal.
In the interim, it has started incorporating the court’s rules to convey the registration of clones as well as their offspring.
Rancher Jason Abraham as well as veterinary Gregg Veneklasen took the AQHA to courtroom seeking the repeal of Rule REG106.1 to permit cloned quarter horses as well as their offspring to endure registered, hence enabling them to compete.
Abraham as well as Veneklasen, who get got nigh xx cloned quarter horses as well as their offspring, filed the activeness through related companies inwards Apr in conclusion twelvemonth inwards the the States District Court for the Northern District of Texas inwards Amarillo.
A 10-person jury ruled inwards favor of the pair, merely awarded no damages. They had sought $US2 meg to $US5 meg inwards damages.
“Although the jury’s verdict institute that our association’s determination to decline to register clones as well as their offspring was inwards violation of antitrust laws, nosotros strongly believe inwards the correct of our members as well as our directors to brand such registration decisions on their own,” AQHA executive vice-president Don Treadway said.
“We also believe inwards this instance that in that place has been no violation of antitrust law. Therefore, AQHA volition choke along to convey whatever as well as all necessary legal steps inwards seeking to get got the terminal judgment entered yesteryear the courtroom inwards favor of the plaintiffs reversed.”
In improver to filing a motion to remain the enforcement of the judgment pending its appeal, the association volition also file a judgment overturning the jury’s verdict on the footing it was non supported yesteryear the trial evidence.
Should the courtroom deny AQHA’s motion, it volition proceed alongside an appeal inwards the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals inwards New Orleans, Louisiana.
AQHA President Johne Dobbs: “It is clear from the telephone calls, emails as well as posts yesteryear our members that they are real disappointed inwards the verdict.
“They choke along to endure against registering clones as well as their offspring for a number of reasons, as well as they object to this verdict equally it represents a consummate shift away from the sire-dam prototype upon which all of our rules as well as processes are based, as well as which get got governed our association for nearly 75 years.
“We appreciate our membership’s support, as well as desire them to know that nosotros volition choke along to create produce for their correct to decide the rules that principle their association.”
Treadway added: “We get got received many questions regarding insurance coverage inwards this case.
“Like many responsible corporations, AQHA proactively carries insurance as well as has a policy inwards the introduce case. We volition hold the membership updated regarding developments inwards this case.”
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