LITIGATION

The 2017 patent infringement litigation brought by intellectual property holding company, MCP IP, LLC, against Bowtech, Inc. has been resolved, with Bowtech agreeing to a confidential financial settlement for past infringement and going-forward license to use certain MCP IP patents for some of its products.

Conservation Force, Dallas Safari Club, Houston Safari Club, the CAMPFIRE Association, the Tanzania Hunting Operators Association (TAHOA), and Corey Knowlton filed suit Friday against Delta Air Lines, Inc. to compel an end to Delta's illegal embargo on transport of hunting trophies of the "Big Five" (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo) from Africa.

The State of Arizona and Office of the Arizona Attorney General today filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by several groups in July against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). The lawsuit challenges some aspects of the Service's revised 10(j) rule that governs the management of Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp issued an official agency statement on Tuesday's (Feb. 12) filing of a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by The Humane Society of the United States and other groups, to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region.

Coyote hunting at night with the aid of an artificial light will be disallowed temporarily in five counties - Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, Washington and Beaufort - pending the outcome of a lawsuit questioning the temporary rule adopted by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation along with Safari Club International, the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, and the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin has filed a motion to intervene in a Wisconsin lawsuit seeking to stop the use of dogs in the state's wolf hunt.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has responded to recent legal challenges to the state's inaugural wolf season.

Unfortunately, multiple-and often frivolous-personal injury lawsuits against the manufacturers and retailers of archery equipment are not unusual in today's litigious times. However, two very similar liability lawsuits brought this summer against two different crossbow manufacturers bear special mention.