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BLACK HAWK v. COMMONWEALTH OF PA.

No. 3:CV-99-2048.

114 F.Supp.2d 327 (2000)

Dennis L. BLACK HAWK, Plaintiff, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Pennsylvania State Game Commission, Vernon Ross, Thomas L. Littwin, and Frederick M. Merluzzi, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

August 24, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Schmidt, III, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Harrisburg, PA, Gary S. Gildin, Carlisle, PA, for Plaintiff.

Dennis L. Blackhawk, Weatherly, PA, pro se.

Howard G. Hopkirk, Office of Attorney General Litigation Section, Harrisburg, PA, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM

VANASKIE, Chief Judge.

At issue in this case is whether plaintiff Dennis L. Black Hawk, a Native American, is entitled to a preliminary injunction to restrain defendants from destroying his bear, which he has kept in captivity since it was a cub and which is a central component of his religious beliefs, because the bear bit two persons. Defendants, who propose to destroy the bear to test it...

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