{"id":6353,"date":"2013-08-21T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2019-03-20T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:16:10","slug":"aqha-must-pay-plaintiffs-nearly-900k-in-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/aqha-must-pay-plaintiffs-nearly-900k-in-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"AQHA must pay plaintiffs nearly $900K in legal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/aqha_logo.png\" alt=\"AQHA logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Jim McBride<br \/>\njim.mcbride@amarillo.com<br \/>\nU.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson has ordered the American Quarter Horse Association to pay nearly $900,000 in legal fees to a horse breeder from Canadian and a Canyon veterinarian in an ongoing horse cloning lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an Amarillo federal court jury found AQHA and one of its committees violated two sections of the Sherman Antitrust Act and Texas statutes by barring cloned horses from the organization\u2019s registry. Jurors also found the AQHA\u2019s actions harmed the plaintiffs, but jurors awarded no damages.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AQHA Pay legal fees\" href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2013-08-20\/aqha-must-pay-plaintiffs-nearly-900k-legal-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rancher Jason Abraham of Canadian and Amarillo veterinarian Gregg Veneklasen sued the 280,000-member organization last year, seeking to overturn a rule that bars cloned horses from the AQHA registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8385,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}