What’s the background?
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department promulgated rules to curtail chronic wasting disease
- Some deer breeders sued to stop the rules.
- Lower Court upheld the rules
- An appeal by deer breeders alleges property rights violations
What are the property rights claims in the appeal to the 3rd Court of Appeals?
- There is a property interest in deer breeding
- There is a property interest in Texas Parks and Wildlife licenses
- The Texas rules refer to deer as “private property”
As private property, the rules amount to a taking of private property without just compensation.
Deer Breeders brief to the 3rd Court of Appeals
Statesman | Texas deer breeders challenge ruling on state’s disease regulations