A federal lawsuit has targeted an obscure Georgia law that allows state officials to seize starving horses. To be heard in front of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today is the case of 46 horses seized from a southwest Georgia farm by state agriculture officials. Edna Reams says the horses were taken without due process, and she wants the federal court to overturn the law. The law being challenged is the Humane Care for Equines Act. Georgia’s Agriculture Department says it gets more than 1,200 complaints about horse abuse each year. Last year, about 300 ailing horses were taken-in.
