The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a wildlife activist had a right to a jury trial to determine if a county sheriff had violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when he was arrested while observing the federal government coaxing wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park. (Courthouse News Service, July 24, 2017, by David Reese)
Activist Anthony Reed moved his car back when confronted by a sheriff’s deputy but did not move behind a barricade out of sight of the herding operation. Reed said he had a First Amendment right to observe the herding. (Great Falls Tribune, July 24, 2017, by Matthew Brown of the Associated Press)