United States Third Circuit

In a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the Secretary of Agriculture's actions in response to an outbreak of avian influenza did not deprive plaintiffs of their property in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2005
• Decided 11/02/2005
• Published 11/02/2005

Judges

• Before SLOVITER, MCKEE, Circuit Judges, and FULLAM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alexander H. Lindsay, Jr. (Argued), Butler, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Linda S. Lloyd (Argued), Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellees Pa Dept. Agriculture, Secretary PA. Department of Agriculture and Dennis C. Wolff., Gregory S. Hirtzel, Post & Schell, Lancaster, PA, for Appellee Penn Ag Ind., Sheila A. Haren (Argued), Post & Schell, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee Penn Ag Ind.