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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Tiger owners lose civil rights suit over exotic permits

LAS VEGAS — A federal court in Nevada sided with a county, sued by a tiger-owning couple over the county’s allegedly unconstitutional conditions on exotic animal permits, finding there “is no constitutional right to the unregulated ownership of exotic animals,” so the conditions on the family’s permits did not violate their rights, nor do they constitute a taking.

Read the ruling here.

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